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© Mr Martin Byrne
IoE Number:
55644
Location:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CAPENHURST LANE (south side)
CAPENHURST, CHESTER, CHESHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Martin Byrne
Date Photographed:
11 December 2006
Date listed:
01 June 1967
Date of last amendment:
01 June 1967
Grade
II
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SJ 37 SE CAPENHURST C.P. CAPENHURST LANE
(South Side)
4/1 Church of the Holy
Trinity.
1/6/1967 II
Church: 1856-9 by James Harrison, tower and much of interior of
1889-90 by John Douglas (Pevsner and Hubbard). Red sandstone blocks
with ashlar dressings. Purple tile roof. 4-bay nave, south porch,
2-bay chancel, vestry and 3-stage west tower with spire. Coped gabled
porch with kneelers has moulded 2-centred arched doorcase with label
mould. Remaining bays of nave are divided by heavy buttresses and
have 2-light windows with Decorated tracery and label moulds. Chancel
with diagonal buttresses and sill band has 1 and 3-light windows with
trefoil heads. 4-light Decorated east window. Squat tower is
buttressed and has octagonal stair turret at the south-west corner.
3-light west window with Edward VII Coronation clock above. Around
the top is a timber-framed stage of 6 by 2 small frames with weather
boarding below and pierced Gothic panels (now much damaged) above.
This carries a broached spire with small Lakeland slates and a louvred
lucarne.
Interior: Arch-braced collar roof to nave, sprung from stone
carved-head corbels. Splayed reveals to the windows. Broad low tower
arch reveals font behind. 2-centred chancel arch on octagonal
responds. Scissor-braced wagon roof. Panel to sides of good stone
reredos carved in manner of medieval tiles with Ten Commandments
inscribed above, in Arts and Crafts style script.