List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
List Entry Number: 1320745
Location
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Bath and North East Somerset
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Paulton
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 21-Sep-1960
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 32855
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
PAULTON C.P. CHURCH STREET (south side)
ST 65 NW
1/3 Church of the Holy Trinity
21.9.60
G.V. II*
Anglican Parish Church. Dated 1757 and 1839, the latter by John Pinch.
Ashlar, freestone dressings, slate roof. West tower, nave, north and south
aisles, north porch, chancel, south chapel, north organ chamber. Square tower of
3 stages with set-back buttresses and full-height circular stair turret, first
stage has plinth, tudor-arch west door with heavy moulding and a good plank door
below a small ogee-headed window, (strings between stages also appear between
buttresses), second stage has quatrefoil to west, at third stage the buttresses
peter out with crocketted finials, each side has a 2-light pointed window below a
hoodmould with quatrefoil pierced tracery, then ogee quatrefoils, that to west
with date (clockwise 1757 seems most likely),then ogee frieze as corbel table
below quatrefoil pierced parapet with obelisk corner finials, tower stands at west
end of north aisle of church of 1831. Gabled nave has 3-light pointed, cusped
west window, buttressed aisles have 4 similar 2-light windows, one over south door
under label, one absent at site of gabled north porch with moulded, pointed arch
below date scroll, diagonal buttressed, gabled chancel has 3-light, pointed east
window as elsewhere, similar 2-lights to north and south gabled chapels.
Interior. 4-bay Perpendicular arcade, shafts on very thin piers, very rich,
small chancel with mock hammer beams with angels, nave roof of arch-braced queen
post construction with tracery spandrels. Fittings: octagonal font of C16?,
stone pulpit, perpendicular details as in local tradition, complete set of pews
with poppy heads. Monument: at west end of south aisle is a C14 chivalic figure
under hood with head stops. (Source: N. Pevsner : Buildings of England : North
Somerset and Bristol : ig58).
Listing NGR: ST6499256575
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Map
National Grid Reference: ST 64992 56575
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