Church Of The Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of The Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church with a 15th-century west tower and a main body of fabric dating from 1858, designed by T.H. Wyatt. The tower is constructed of greensand ashlar, while the rest of the church is built of chequered flint and squared greensand blocks. It has tiled, gable-ended roofs. The plan includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, south Lady chapel, and south porch.
The west tower has three stages with a plinth and embattled parapet, separated by weathered string courses. Diagonal buttresses rise to the tower, and there is an octagonal vice turret to the north. The parapet has gargoyles and crocketted finials. A pointed, three-light Perpendicular window is located on the west side, with a returned label. There is a chamfered octagonal loop window to the second stage, and the belfry stage has two-light, pointed windows with quatrefoils and louvres. The vice turret has an external, pointed, chamfered doorway. The north wall of the nave has three reset, pointed, three-light Perpendicular windows, likely from the 15th century, although the tracery pattern of the easternmost window differs. The west wall of the south aisle has a pointed, three-light window with curvilinear tracery, while the south wall features two and three-light, square-headed windows, also with curvilinear tracery. The Lady chapel has a two-centred doorway, a central three-light segmental-pointed window with curvilinear tracery and a single trefoiled light to the east. The east wall of the chapel contains a graduated triplet of lancets. The chancel has a pointed, three-light east window with Y tracery. The north wall of the chancel has two trefoiled lancets and a pointed door. The south porch is gabled and has a two-centred archway and inner door.
Internally, the nave features a four-bay pointed arcade with two chamfered orders on round piers. The piers have moulded caps and carved respond corbels. The pointed chancel arch is of two chamfered orders, the outer continuous with the jambs and the inner springing from respond corbels. A 15th-century, pointed tower arch of two chamfered orders dies into the responds. The arches to the chapel and between the chapel and chancel are pointed, also of two chamfered orders dying into responds. A continuous string course runs through the chancel. The nave roof is a four-bay structure with arch-braced collar beam trusses, king-posts, and cusped struts. The chancel has a scissor-braced collar beam roof. Other features include a 19th-century octagonal font and an octagonal oak pulpit carved with naturalistic foliage, dated 1914. A monument to John Straight, situated under the tower and dated 1670, includes a kneeling effigy within a niche, flanked by Tuscan columns supporting an entablature. Further early 19th-century monuments are present, along with other largely 19th-century features.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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