Church Of The Holy Trinity

ST 68 NE RANGEWORTHY CHURCH LANE

1/38 Church of the Holy Trinity 30.3.60 G.V. II*

Anglican Parish Church. C11, C15 alterations, extended and restored, 1851. Rubble, freestone dressings, slate roof with weathered, coped verges, cross finials and stone ridge. Nave, south porch, north aisle, chancel, north vestry. Much restored, now mainly Perpendicular. Nave, with diagonal buttresses as elsewhere, has a heavily restored 2-light west window below a corbelled, octagonal bell-turret with alternate cusped openings between jamb-shafts, conical cap, two 3-light square head windows under labels flank the gabled south porch which has a moulded barely pointed arch under a drip mould, a tiny cusped west light and a plain 2-light east window, within the doorway has jamb shafts with scalloped capitals, plain tympanum below double chevron topped by pellet moulds, to right of this a pointed piscina below a frieze, plain oak benches. North aisle has 3 windows as nave, grotesque gargoyle at junction with nave. Chancel is lower than nave, to the south two 2-light windows flank a priest's door all under labels, at east a 3-light window as nave west end, adjoining flat roof north vestry has a 2-light east window and a north door as south doorway. Interior: chancel arch has same features as south doorway on a larger scale, chancel has 2 piscinas, one dates from restoration, the other is earlier: 3-bay arcade, crude wave and shaft. Fittings: chamfered square font may be of C13 origin; half-octagon, corbelled C15 stone pulpit has cusped panels and a foliate frieze and is entered from vestry up altered rood stairs. Memorials: freestone tablet on external wall of nave, drapes around a tablet, now illegible. (Source: D. Verey : Buildings of England : Gloucestershire : The Vale and the Forest of Dean : 1970).

Listing NGR: ST6866186248