Description

SK 19 69 PARISH OF ASHFORD IN THE WATER CHURCH STREET
11/19 (North Side)
12.7.1967 Church of Holy Trinity
GV II

Church. C12, C13 with C14 alterations, largely rebuilt 1868-70 in Decorated
style by JM & H Taylor. Coursed gritstone rubble, gritstone dressings. Plain
tile roofs. Stone coped gables and parapets. Western tower, nave, north nave
aisle and chancel aisle, south porch and chancel. C13 two stage tower. Central
buttress to west with twin lancet over. Moulded stringcourse above. Twin semi-
circular headed bell openings to all sides. Clock faces below to north and south.
Above, moulded stringcourse and parapets with C14 ridgeback coped embattlements
with steeple corner finials. Pointed C19 mullioned and transomed window with
reticulated tracery to north. North elevation - 3-light flat headed window with
trefoil headed lights and dripmould over with angular scroll labelstops. Triple
stepped buttress to east. Two similar windows and buttresses beyond chamfered,
pointed C19 doorcase with dripmould over and single light, trefoil headed window,
to east. To extreme east, chamfered four-centred arch door with square dripmould
and 2-light ogee cusped window with transom. Low parapet wall above. Coping
divide roof between nave and chancel. East chancel aisle window C19 pointed
mullion and transom window with panel tracery. To south, C19 east 3-light window
with cusped intersecting tracery. Chancel has triple stepped corner buttresses
and corner steeple finials. South elevation from east - tall cusped lancet with
four-centred arch light below transom. Dripmould over. Chamfered pointed C19
doorcase beyond and triple stepped buttress, To west, 2-light transomed window
similar to lancet. Large gabletted triple stepped buttress to corner of nave.
Beyond to west, 3-light flat headed, transomed window with trefoil headed lights
above, 4 centred arched lights below. Similar window beyond south porch. Porch
has plinth with moulded, pointed doorcase to south. Above stepped, blind, cusped
panels. Inner door has refused C12 tympanum from original church, depicting tree
with lion and hog to sides. Five re-used C12 voussoirs over. Interior - C14
chamfered, pointed tower arch with moulded capitals. Heavily restored three bay,
C14 north arcade, stepped and chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with
simple capitals. C19 chancel arch with chamfered soffit, supported on corbelled
out red marble columns with lily capitals. Three bay chancel, pointed arch to
organ bay. To east, cusped archway and piscina. East window has 1872 stained
glass. North aisle, west window, dated 1878, by Morris & Co. C19 roofs with
cusped timbering, contemporary pews. Two Ashford marble tombs, one to Greens
of 1846,other to Henry Watson, founder of marble industry, of 1786. Large hatchment
of 1724 in tower. C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil stem.

Listing NGR: SK1950469722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of Holy Trinity at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26452337

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