Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, WATLING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196998
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, WATLING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196998
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, WATLING STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, WATLING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 22604 01307
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20SW WATLING STREET, Wilnecote 670-1/4/138 (North side) 09/11/72 Church of Holy Trinity
II
Church. 1821 with mid C19 vestry. Brick with ashlar dressings, ashlar to south and west; graduated slate roof and tile roof to north. Gothic Revival style. 5-bay single-vessel nave and chancel with north organ loft and vestry, and slender west tower. East end has coped gable with kneelers; 3 pointed windows with splayed plaster reveals, the central window larger and with Y-tracery, datestone above inscribed: G B/ 1821; organ loft has pointed window with wooden Y-tracery frame with leaded glazing, blocked pointed entrance to right. Vestry, formerly verger's house,of 2 storeys; 2-window range: segmental-headed entrance to left end and similar blocked central entrance; segmental-headed windows with pegged wooden frames to ground floor, similar windows to 1st floor; truncated end stack. South facade has central porch, coped gable with cross, plain pointed entrance with paired doors and offset angle buttresses; Y-tracery windows in splayed reveals, the central one truncated over porch. West end has coped gable with kneelers, Y-tracery windows flanking 3-stage tower with string courses and embattled parapet, plain pointed south entrance, small pointed lights and louvred bell openings. North elevation has ashlar cornice and Y-tracery windows. INTERIOR: corbelled king and queen-post roof. Mid C19 altar rail on enriched brass posts, other chancel furnishings of 1920s and 1930s, including open traceried screen incorporating south pulpit. Some C19 and C20 stained glass. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.312).
Listing NGR: SK2260401307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 312
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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