Church Of The Holy Trinity And St Thomas Of Canterbury

ETTINGTON

SP24NE HALFORD ROAD 1912-1/7/69 (West side) 02/08/72 Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury (Formerly Listed as: ETTINGTON Church of the Holy Trinity)

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Church. 1902-3. By C Ford Whitcomb. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; tile roofs. Wide eaves; flush quoins and coped gables. Stone internal stack. PLAN: 3-bay nave with north-east vestry and south porch; 2-bay chancel with north-east tower and south chapel. EXTERIOR: windows have Perpendicular tracery. Chancel has gable cross over 3-light window with hood carried up as fillet; foundation stone dated 1902. North and south sides have 2-light straight-headed and traceried windows. 3-stage tower has one diagonal buttress with gable dated 1909, octagonal stair turret to west angle; 2-light double-chamfered-mullioned window to east and similar 4-light window to north; 2nd stage has double-chamfered light to 3 sides; bell stage has paired 2-light traceried and louvred bell openings with inscriptions taken from the Te Deum on lozenge panels between pairs of openings; partly pierced panelled parapet and recessed lead-clad super-structure. Chapel has 2-light straight-headed and traceried window to east and west; south entrance with double-chamfered opening and flanking straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights. Nave has gable crosses; north side has 2 offset buttresses and 2 straight-headed and traceried windows, blind bay to west; vestry to east has north gable with entrance and window of 2 cusped lights, upper double-chamfered cusped light with hood; window of 3 cusped lights to west; south side similar, 2 windows to east of pointed entrance with continuous mouldings and paired plank doors has gabled porch with enriched open timber-framing on low stone walls; bronze sundial to one buttress. Several lead rainwater heads and downspouts. INTERIOR: reported as having late C18 pulpit from former Church of St Thomas a Becket and wall monuments of 1784 and 1801. The church replaced the Church of St Thomas a Becket, 1798-1913, of which the tower only remains (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 290-1).

Listing NGR: SP2669549046