Church Of Holy Trinity And Attached Railings And Gate

BARNSTAPLE

SS5632 BARBICAN TERRACE 684-1/5/4 (South side (off)) 22/06/81 Church of Holy Trinity and attached railings and gate (Formerly Listed as: BARBICAN TERRACE Holy Trinity Church)

GV II*

Parish church. Tower 1843-1845 by D Mackintosh and G Abbot, remainder rebuilt 1867 by William White (Pevsner), although the nave rainwater heads are dated 1843. Tower rubble with tooled ashlar dressing; remainder of church snecked stone with ashlar and Bath stone dressings; slate roofs with lead rolls. Free Gothic style, mostly influenced by medieval Perpendicular with French Gothic influences to E end. PLAN: 4-bay nave and aisles; apsidal chancel with pairs of projecting bays on N & S sides; SW tower. EXTERIOR: notably grand, tall, Somerset-influenced tower; nave with clerestory; chancel roof lower than nave; aisles with lean-to roofs. Coped parapets to chancel, chancel bays and nave. Exterior includes good carved figures on nave and tower. 3-sided buttressed apsidal E end with five 2-light Decorated style traceried windows, the E window larger. N and S sides have 2 projecting bays with hipped roofs and 2-light traceried windows. Aisles have buttresses with set-offs. N side has moulded N doorway with square-headed hoodmould. S side has similar doorway to W and a doorway at the E, typically William White, with stone-slated pent roof carried over it from aisle buttress to W side of S chancel bay. S side has flat-roofed vestry with parapet in angle between aisle and tower. Short, 2-light traceried aisle windows. Steeply-pointed, 2-light clerestory windows to nave. W end of nave has 5-light Perpendicular-style traceried window and a moulded W doorway. Fine, tall, 4-stage tower with set-back buttresses with set-offs; string courses and corbelled, embattled, pierced parapet with corner pinnacles with crockets and lower, central pinnacles to each face. Tower has carved frieze below belfry and parapet. Distinctive, very tall pair of 2-light belfry openings to each face with pierced quatrefoils filling each light and ogival hoodmoulds with crockets. 3rd stage has 1-light cinquefoil-headed opening with square-headed hoodmould. INTERIOR: nave with deep arch-braced roof and quatrefoil piers and stained glass of 1875 by Powell. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: iron railings and gates at west end of tower with an unpierced cast-iron frieze of foliage design. An uncleared graveyard on the S side with a good avenue of horse chestnuts lining the path through the churchyard. Graded for the fine tower, curiously evocative of Somerset tracery and a prominent landmark in the town, and for the forceful exterior composition by White. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 151).

Listing NGR: SS5620632778