Church Of The Holy Trinity

RAMSGATE BELLEVUE ROAD TR 3865 SE (west side) 10/56 Church of the Holy Trinity GV II Parish Church. 1844-5. Stevens and Alexander of London. Coursed, knapped flint with Caen stone dressings and concrete interlocking tiles to roof. Nave with aisles and south porch and chancel in perpendicular style. Triple offset and pinnacled buttresses to nave and aisle west end, with double gable to west, and plank and stud door with label surround below large 5 light window. Smaller 3 light windows to aisles, west end, with arched 2 light windows elsewhere and square headed 2 light clerestory windows. Gabled south porch with arched and hooded surrounds to outer and inner doors. Simple offset buttresses to east ends of nave and aisles, and eastern bell gable. Small and plain projecting chancel. Interior: now used as church and church hall with panelled entrance lobby to both parts. Large double chamfered arcade on octagonal moulded piers, with similar channel arch. Fittings: pulpit and lectern, very dark varnished wood with much figurative sculpture, 1867 by J E Lock-Beveridge. The church cost £3000, with seating for 770, on a site given by the D'Este family of Mount Albion House (the children of Prince Frederick Augustus and Lady Augusta Murray) (Busson, Ramsgate, 106;) (See also B.O.E. Kent II. 426; Honan. Victorian Churches of Kent, 83).

Listing NGR: TR3866965333