Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Bradpole, Dorset

Entry Name: Parish Church of Holy Trinity

Listing Date: 19 December 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1213864

English Heritage Legacy ID: 398511

ID on this website: 101213864

Location: Holy Trinity Church, Bradpole, Dorset, DT6

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Bradpole

Built-Up Area: Bridport

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Bridport St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

SY 49 SE BRADPOLE BRADPOLE VILLAGE

2/47 Parish Church of
Holy Trinity

GV II

Parish Church. 1845-6 with a spire added in 1863, and north-east
chapel/vestry of 1897 by C E Ponting. Dressed stone walls. Slate
roof with stone gable-copings, with crosses at nave and chancel
gables. West Tower, Nave with south porch, north aisle, Chancel
and north-east vestry. Tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses
and plain parapet. Roll-moulds for strings. Heavily moulded west
doorway with pointed head. 2-leaf plank door with strap-hinges.
Single square-headed light to ringing chamber and 2 lancet lights
to the bell-chamber. Spire of pyramidal form, of wooden shingles.
Woodlucarnes with steep gables, one to each side. Nave of 4 bays
each divided by buttresses each with 2 set-offs. Keeled roll-
moulding beneath windows and also at springing, carried over as
hoods. Windows are single lancets with a deep chamfer. South
Porch, with pointed-arch entrance and moulded jambs. Returned
label over. Inner door has 2-leaf plank door with ornamental
hinges. Chancel: 2 bays of lancets with cusped heads and separate
labels over. Priest's door, on south side, with pointed head.
East window of 3 stepped lancets. North-east Vestry, gabled to
east end, with coupled pointed lights to east with quatrefoil heads.
North door has a small stone porch with a pointed arch dying into
jambs and ogival parapet moulding. North aisle, 4 bays under a
pentice slate roof, with straight-chamfered lancets and buttresses
between. Interior: north arcade of 4 bays with octagonal piers
and moulded capitals. High pointed arches with straight-chamfered
and quadrant mouldings. Roof of arch-braced collar type carried on
stone corbels, trefoiled above collar. Rafters planked-in and
imitation wind-bracing. Chancel-arch with double-responds, moulded
capitals and head. Fittings: font, chamfered octagonal bowl with
moulded necking, C15 with modern repair. Stem and base are Cl9/C2O.
Pulpit: stone, octagonal, with star of Jerusalem and IHS on front
panels, cl9. Head of a C15 window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with
panel tracery, fixed to the west wall. Fresco of Christ in Majesty
above chancel-arch by W G Rich, Cl9.
RQfIM Dorset I, p 36(1).

Listing NGR: SY4804794288

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