Listed Building: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (INCLUDING TOWER) (101802)

The following building shall be deleted:- 20/65 OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (North Side Church of the Holy Trinity (including Tower). 1. OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD 5l86 (North Side) Church of the Holy Trinity (including Tower) SZ 0991 20/65 7.6.73. B 2. Disused since June 1973, 1868-9, Cory and Ferguson (of Carlisle), tower 1878. Italian Romanesque of dignified and impressive character: red brick, vitrified blue brick bands emphasising plinths and connecting alternating red and blue voussoirs of windows, roofs of patterned tiles. South-west campanile, almost detached, 5 storeys: battered plinth with south doorway of 4 orders, 2 of red terracotta, 2 of red brick, foliage capitals and arabesque tympanum of stone, 2nd stage of triple round-arched slit windows, 3rd of circular medallion enclosed in canted angle-set bricks, 4th of paired windows on stone columns, 5th (belfry) of tall triple windows on coupled stone columns, saddleback roof removed 1956-7. Semi-circular turret to west with stairs expressed spiral pattern of blue brick. Connected to church by lean-to western narthex with elaborate paired windows with enriched columns of buff terracotta, similar windows to apsidal conical-roofed baptistry. Flat pilaster strips to each bay, cornice of angle-set bricks. Big wheel window in west gable of nave, aisles have 3 round-arched windows to each bay between pilaster strips, with cornice of angle-set bricks. Clerestory of circular windows framed by canted angle-set brick, eaves cornice of angle-set bricks. Transept gables have cusped circular window over 3 round-arched. South-east porch, hip-roofed, gabled entrance with stone tympanum. Apse with 7 round-arched windows over banded drum, arched Lombard frieze on stone corbels and moulded brick parapet. North-east organ chamber with steep hipped roof crowned by cross and finial, gabled porch to vestries, connected to Church Hall of 1908 (also round-arched but undistinguished). Narthex interior with flat panelled ceiling between banded red-and-blue arches, tower porch vaulted by stone ribs, with herringbone red-and-buff tympana to walls and doorway, baptistery apse with open timber ribs, all windows with similar elaborate terracotta to exterior. Nave west wall has 3 Greco-Egyptian entrance, round-arched within rectangular frame with cresting, foliage patterns above painted directly on brick. 4-bay nave arcades with Corinthian columns on foliated bases and banded round arches, coupled columns to eastern arcade responds. Walls of grey-buff brick with red bands, pilaster strips in spandrels supporting medallions with notched edges, clerestory circular windows embraced by banded arches. Aisles windows connected by inner arches into triplets, aisle walls have projecting red bands. 2-bay transept arcade with tall arches, angel corbels on square piers, clerestory arcade breaking over main arch, with 6 of 10 arches open, rest blind. 3 arched on coupled columns to organ chamber at high level east of north transept. Nave and chancel roofs barrel-vaulted in tim mber, with diagonal boarding, between stone arches with metal rosettes on soffits, supported on short wall shafts with foliage capitals and corbels. Apse windows banded, with painted inscription on frieze over, polychrome marble walls below sill level, with inset Creed and Commandments panel painted on metal; encaustic tile floor, carved stalls. Reredos of 1910 now in St Swithun's, Gervis Road. Pulpit polygonal, pink and black marble, on stone ribbed coving to base. Font (now in north aisle) circular, on green marble columns with foliage capitals. Grisaille patterned glass in most windows, those in narthex originally in apse (1872); present apse glass by A K Nicholson, 1923. North transept window has Darwin's ship The Beagle, in memory of Admiral Sir B J Sullivan. Chancel screen, gilt metal on alabaster base, probably 1910. South transept altar and parclose, elaborate, by W H R Blacking, 1931. Good glass in south-east porch (Faith, Hope, Charity) probably by Wooldridge for Powells, circa 1875. Listing NGR: SZ0917791418

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Sep 13 2010 3:37AM