New Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Church.

New Holy Trinity Church

WRENN ID
long-ashlar-blackthorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1984
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The New Holy Trinity Church was built in 1887-89, designed by E S Prior. It is a parish church constructed of rock-faced stone with a stone corbel table. The church has a nave, chancel, and a south porch, with stone slab roofs; the chancel roof is lower and has a steep pitch. Four buttresses are present on the nave, each with small set-offs and gabled heads. The west gable has stone coping. The nave has four bays and contains single lancet windows, the easternmost window featuring Y-tracery of two lights. A continuous string and hood mould runs along the nave. A small bell-cote sits over the east gable of the nave, with a pitched roof and pierced quatrefoils; the bell opening is two-lights with a pierced trefoil above, and the east side of the bell-cote is corbelled out. The chancel has four simple lancets, and the east window consists of three stepped lancets with a large pierced trefoil and a roll-mould surround. The south porch, belonging to the nave, has a steep-pitched stone slab roof. The porch entrance has chamfered jambs, nook shafts, and capitals, with a two-centred arch featuring multi-roll mouldings and a hood-mould. There are three small trefoil windows on each side of the porch. A round-headed door with a roll-moulding leads into the church.

The interior features four large strainer-arches that spring low in the side walls, pointed and filled with masonry on the extrados. Close-set purlins of the roof are notched into this masonry. A moulded string at wall-plate extends onto the chancel walls and rounds into the chancel. The pointed chancel arch is straight-chamfered. A false machicolation supports the wall-plate in the chancel. A north wall features an organ bay with a pointed-arch entrance and two lancets to the east of it. The east window has a screen-wall in front, carried on irregular octagonal piers with a pointed arch head dying into the jambs, surmounted by a spherical triangle. Fittings include a late 19th-century font of marble with eight marble stems, water-holding bases, sausage capitals. There is a stone pulpit with applied linenfold panels and guilloche ornament, resting upon a corbelled-out stone base; a chamfered entrance to the pulpit features a nodding pointed head. A north vestry and organ chamber were rebuilt in 1910. A gesso altar front, by Lethaby, was exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition of 1889. Stained glass is present in the east window, likely by Lethaby.

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