Church of Holy Trinity England, UK

Listed Building Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0201 WATERMOOR ROAD 578-1/6/330 (South West side) 23/07/71 Church of the Holy Trinity

II*

Church. 1847-1851, windows enlarged by Scott 1878. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. Rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings; stone slate roofs with coped verges. 2-bay aisled chancel with south vestry, 4-bay aisled nave, north-west tower with spire. Chancel: east gable wall with angle buttresses with offsets has 3 lancet windows linked by continuous hoodmould with carved stops; north wall has 2-light lancet window; south wall has 2-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould. North chancel aisle: east gable wall has circular window in moulded stone surround with tracery of 3 quatrefoils, angle buttresses with offsets, gabled north-east porch in angle of chancel and aisle has single-light window with hoodmould to east wall, small plank door in shouldered chamfered stone surround to north; north wall of north chancel aisle has 2-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould, attached to west is porch with hipped roof and plank door in shouldered chamfered stone surround. South chancel aisle: east gable wall has pointed window with 3 graduated lights and hoodmould, angle buttresses with offsets, vestry attached to south has lancet window with hoodmould to east and 2 pairs of lancets with hoodmoulds to south, cusped circular window and plank door with hoodmould to west wall, ashlar squinch passage in angle with south nave aisle. North nave aisle: to north wall two 2-light pointed windows with geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds, gabled porch with buttresses with offsets has pointed doorway with paired shafts and moulded with late C20 iron gates. South nave aisle: to south wall three 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery and hoodmoulds, south doorway in gabled projection has pointed moulded hood on triple shafts with leaf capitals, boarded door with decorative ironwork; west wall has 3-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould, angle buttresses with offsets. Nave: west wall has 4-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould. North-west tower: has angle and intermediate buttresses with offsets, stair turret to north-east angle, 2 lancet windows to north wall and 4 lancet windows to west wall, pairs of 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery and stone louvres to each face to bell-chamber; ball-flower frieze with gargoyles and parapet with moulded coping; broach spire with 2-light openings in gabled dormers to each face. INTERIOR: chancel has single pointed moulded arches to north and south aisles, small pointed doorway to north, doorway with 4-centred arch head to south. Chancel arch pointed with moulded head on carved corbels. Sanctuary has carved, painted and gilded reredos by Scott, 1881, piscina and 3 sedilia to south; brass and oak communion rails, oak choir stalls. Organ in north chancel aisle; communion table with carved and gilded timber reredos to south chancel aisle. Nave has arcade of pointed arches on round and octagonal piers with carved capitals; octagonal stone pulpit to north-west of chancel arch with quatrefoil decoration and openwork panels to sides; font to west end of north nave aisle quatrefoil plan on 4 grouped marble piers with elaborate cusped and pinnacled brass cover; softwood pews. 8-bay nave roof with king-post trusses lit by 2 dormers to each side. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.171; Verey D: Cotswold Churches: London: 1976-: PP 76 & 77).

Listing NGR: SP0260701386