Church Of The Holy Trinity

632/2/50 DOVER STREET 24-OCT-50 (East side) CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

II Parish Church, 1845 with transepts added in 1848 and 1860, and minor C20 modifications. Thomas Hellyer, local architect. Early English style and cruciform plan. Ragstone rubble walls with ashlar dressings; slate roofs with some polychromy. EXTERIOR: To southwest, a tall tower with narrow triple lancet window, corner buttresses and capped with an octagonal bell stage and a fine steeple. This has pointed arch main door with moulded stone architrave and colonettes, and a pronounced corner stair tower. Apsidal chancel has rounded lower room to corner, and hipped roof with small blind arcade on corbels below eaves. Windows are single or paired lancets under thin hood moulds. Butresses around the building with slate caps and quoins. Entrance porch under pitched roof has arched opening under moulded surround including dog tooth. Timber door has decorative hinges. INTERIOR: Nave and aisles have tall moulded arcade on slender clustered colonettes with moulded capitals. Roof incorporates slender rafters and trusses with cross braces and angled struts that cuved to arcade wall and rest on corbelled blocks. Talle pointed chancel arch to 3-sided chancel. Wooden pews in nave and aisle incorporate fleur de lys finials, and have doors into pew, with an additional open attached seat flanking the aisle in each row. Timber screens in side chapel, and some dado panelling. Wide arch has been infilled with C20 boarding to separate the space. Central aisle has Victorian floor tiles. Figurative coloured glass in lancets. Octagonal stone font. SUBSIDIARY: Rubble stone wall with stone gate piers with fleur de lys to top.

A parish church of 1845 with some mid-C19 additions by the notable local architect Thomas Hellyer. It is comprehensively of good quality and in a studied Early English style, and it survives well. Furthermore, the bold tower spire makes it a prominent landmark when approaching Ryde from the Solent.