Church Of The Holy Trinity

SO 8602-8702 MINCHINHAMPTON BRIMSSCOMBE HILL

12/213 Church of the Holy Trinity

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Parish church. 1840 for David Ricardo M.P.; altered 1881. Coursed and squared limestone; Welsh slate and artificial stone slate roofs. Nave without aisles, north east tower and west chancel. Romanesque style. Central round arched doorway to east and with jamb shafts having scalloped capitals; 2 flanking blank arches Five bay blank round arched arcade above. Central circular window with looped tracery. Shallow clasping corner buttresses. Round arched doorway to porch in base of tower. Belfry has stylised lombard frieze below lower string course; 2 round arched recesses to each face with smaller belfry openings within. Corner shafts to belfry. Stone coped pyramidal roof with grotesque corbels, roll mouldings to corners and centre of each face and iron weather-vane finial. Round arched nave windows with zig-zag frieze to eaves. Projecting gabled organ-loft towards west end has round arched window recess with circular window. Romanesque triplet to west end. Interior: 5-bay timber truss roof to nave. Timber panelled balcony at east end. Large round chancel arch has painted lettering: 'The LORD is in His HOLY TEMPLE'. Encaustic tiled chancel floor. Most fittings appear contemporary with construction, organ-loft being an 1881 addition. Some good stained glass: west triplet and 2 nave windows. by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. One of the two churches built by Ricardo after sub- division of Minchinhampton ecclesiastical parish, this exhibits his distaste for Tractarian principals by having the chancel at west end. (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 184- 207; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8664402092