Church Of The Holy Trinity

TL 00 NW NETTLEDEN WITH CHURCH ROAD POTTEN END (West side) Potten End

5/192 Church of The Holy Trinity

GV II

Chapel-of-ease, parish church since 1895. Designed c.1864, contract date 9.3.1865, licensed for services Sept 1865, consecrated 1868, porch 1908. F.C. Penrose for Earl Brownlow. Builders T. & J. Mathews and William Nash for £710. Plum brick with red brick and stone dressings and steep red tiled roofs. A small T-plan church with semi-circular apse, S porch, N vestry, and bellcote on W gable. Described'as in the Italian Norman Style. Round-arched windows, stilted 3-light windows lighting nave, single lights elsewhere with triplets at 2 levels in transepts ends. Blue brick chamfered course to plinth and red brick corbel table at eaves level continued across faces of gables with red brickwork above and stone gable copings with crosses. W gable topped by 2-stage bellcote with mid-wall shaft to lower opening. Plastered interior over boarded dado. Open timber roof with arch-braced collar-trusses in pine. Plastered round-arch with chamfered imposts to apse. 3 stained glass windows in apse presented by Lady Marion Alford for opening. Simple oak fittings with one choir stall and lectern by Thompson of Kilburn (the 'mouse-man'). Elaborate S door protected by later matching porch. Original bell replaced by 3 in 1927. War memorial tablets inserted externally in S gable of S transept. (Kelly (1914)53: M.J. Smith Holy Trinity Church, Potten End: Centenary Booklet 1868-1967 (1967): Bryant (1982) Ch.IX).

Listing NGR: TL0171008940

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.