Church Of The Holy Trinity

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TG 2208 SW 21/969

TRINITY STREET Church of the Holy Trinity (No. 110a)

(Formerly listed under ESSEX STREET (south side))

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Church. 1860-1 by W. Smith. Brick faced with flint, stone dressings. Pantile roof. Nave, transept chapels, apsidal chancel and east tower. The tower with set-back buttressing rises above the apse and has small corner towers and polygonal top stage with spire. Early English 3- light windows throughout with alternating red and yellow brick arches. Red brick stringcourses at cill and arch-springing levels. 2-light west windows to chapels. Buttressed west front with central doorway having attached columns with capitals and bases and dripmould ending with ball- flower motif. 4-light window above door with bolection moulding and quatrefoil top lights. 4-bay blind arcading at cill level with tripar- tite arches. Interior:- window openings in pointed arch recesses. 2-bay chapels with shaft corbels having capitals and crocketed base on east sides. Polygonal centre columns. Attached polygonal shafts on chancel arch. Apse arch with attached polygonal columns springing from corbels. C20 balcony at west end. The church does not lie on a true east/west axis but is orientated to the street pattern - approximately north-east/south-west.

Listing NGR: TG2213908049