Description

FROXFIELD PRIVETT
SU 62 NE
8/7 Church of the Holy
Trinity (formerly listed
15.5.78 as 'Holy Trinity Church')
GV II*
Former parish church, now a 'redundant' church. 1876-8, by Sir A Blomfield,
replacing an earlier building. Early English design; chancel with north (vestry)
and south chapels, nave of 4 bays with aisles, north porch, west tower. Walls of
rough flint rubble with Bath stone dressings; moulded eaves, hoodmoulds, cill
bands, plinth, stepped buttresses: lancets, coupled in the clerestory, triple in
the aisles, triple east window. Tile roof. The prominent tower has a stone
broach-spire with lucarnes and corner gargoyles, coupled belfry openings,
elaborately-stepped corner buttresses, octagonal stair turret, and west door within
a gabled frame. The porch has a steep gable, with a figure in a Vesica, and
buttresses. Interior, full Gothic details, with moulded and stiff leaf caps,
mosaic floor (with geometrical patterns in the chancel) reredos arcade, sedilia,
stone pulpit, square font on pillars. An unaltered building.

Listing NGR: SU6791628475

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Holy Trinity Church, Privett at Wikipedia
• Holy Trinity Church, Privett official website
• Wikidata Q15224723

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas