Listed Building record MWX333 - Holy Trinity Church, Weymouth

A parish church built in 1834-6 and extended and reoriented in 1888; this later work to designs of G R Crickmay in Perpendicular style. The front of the building is of Portland stone ashlar, and the rest of squared or rubble Portland stone with limestone dressings, and it has a slate roof.

Holy Trinity Church, trinity Road. Parish Church of Weymouth. Gothic Perpendicular design by Philip Wyatt, completed by Matthew Wyatt 1834-36. Extended and reoriented 1887. The nave runs North to South with the altar at the southern end of the nave. The church is of interest for the unusual relationship of chancel and nave in the original plan, of which clear evidence remains. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 334-335 (Monograph). SDO150.

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 451 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 1:1250, 1979 (Map). SWX1844.

Holy Trinity Church [NAT]

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868008 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2022 12:37PM