Parish Church Of The Holy Trinity

SY 68 SW FLEET EAST FLEET

6/115 Parish Church of 26.1.56 The Holy Trinity

GV I

Parish Church. 1827-9, by Strickland, at the expense of George Gould, Vicar. Ashlar stone walls, slate roofs. West Tower, Nave, Chancel, polygonal sanctuary. West Tower, 3 stages divided by strings. Diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet, pinnacles with pagoda finials. West doorway with moulded jambs and pointed arch. Label with square stops. 2-leaf studded door with blind tracery heads. 2-light mullion window above with cinquefoil cusping, label with mitre- stops. Bell-openings: single light with trefoil-cusped head and stone tracery. Label over with depressed-arch head. Nave, of 3 bays, 2-light windows in a pointed- arch head with panel tracery. Returned labels over. East window has a wide pointed arch window, and a label with vine-stops. Bay divisions buttressed, and diagonal buttressing at corners. Interior: roof of low pitch, with 32 panels cinque-foil-cusped, with a trilobe leaf in the spandrels. Wide chancel-arch with one respond order, with capitals and moulded abaci. Label with square stops. Chancel has recesses in the east, north and south walls, with arched heads springing from slender attached shafts , the plaster soffits contain cusped panelling. From the forward shafts spring the ribs of the vaulted plaster roof,rib vaults and soffited panels with quatrefoils. East window, stained glass, grey grisaille in quatrefoils. Resurrection of Christ at centre. Large white marble wall-tablet, on right-hand side of chancel. To John Gould Esq., of Upway and of Fleet House, died 26 August 1818, aged 43, monument erected by his brother. Three figures, in Neo-Classical style, carved in high relief and grouped round an urn, with shield- of-arms in the foreground and inscription - tablet below. Font, C19, stone bowl with intersecting arching and arcaded base. (RCHM Dorset I, p.109 (2)).

Listing NGR: SY6338480520