Holy Trinity Church

SU 85 NE HAWLEY HAWLEY GREEN

7/2 Holy Trinity Church

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1857 (architect J. B. Clacy), 1863 (C. Buckeridge), and 1882 (the Tower). C13 Gothic style, in red brickwork with Bath stone dressings externally; inside of yellow brickwork with flush red brick banding. Nave and aisles of 4 bays, with apse ends to chancel and north chapel and square end to south chapel; western Tower. The main elevation (west) has a central entrance through the tower which has 3 stages (triple lancets above a traceried window above the doorway), coupled corner buttresses and a broach spire (of shingles); on either side the steep gables of the almost full-height aisles have large windows with Geometrical tracery, and buttresses within, the arcade is supported on circular columns with attached Purbeck shafts on the north side, and on plain 4-lobed columns on the south side. The aisles extend a half bay on each side of the tower, the northern recess accommodating the font. The chancel is richly ornamented, with coloured bands, carved capitals, moulded ribs to quadripartite vaulting, stone reredos in front of blind arcading, trefoils above coupled lights to the 5 apse windows, mosaic wall panels, piscina, sedilia, and patterned tile flooring on several stepped levels. The nave has an exposed timber roof, with arch-braced collars, and 2 dormers on each side.

Listing NGR: SP7746362302