Description

YORK

SE6152NE EAST PARADE, Heworth
1112-1/11/1220 (South side)
24/06/83 Church of Holy Trinity

II

Church. 1868-9. By George Fowler Jones.
MATERIALS: coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar quoins and
dressings and high chamfered plinth. Slate and stone slate
roofs with ashlar stacks. Original guttering cast with
nailhead mouldings survives. All roofs have gable crosses or
crocket finials.
PLAN: chancel with south vestry; 6-bay nave with 2-bay
rudimentary transepts and north porch; north-east steeple.
EXTERIOR: chancel east end has three trefoiled lights in
pointed openings with traceried heads and with continuous
hoodmould and moulded sillstring, both returned on north and
south sides. Above is glazed cinquefoil sunk deeply in carved
roundel beneath 2-centred hoodmould on corbel heads.
Chancel windows on north side are single trefoil-headed lights
in pointed openings. On south side, they are obscured by
vestry with pent porch. Porch doorway is chamfer stopped with
2-centred head and board door with ornate ironwork: hoodmould
has head stops.
3-stage tower with octagonal spire has extruded 2-stage
staircase turret to north east, both having high plinths and
moulded bands to each stage. Tower north face has chamfer
stopped doorway with 2-centred arch of 4 moulded orders,
moulded impost band and lobed roundel in tympanum: hoodmould
is head stopped. Double door is of shaped panels with square
head. Second stage has slit lights to three faces and, to
north, clock face in moulded surround. Each belfry face has a
louvred trefoil headed light in 2-centred opening with pierced
head and hoodmould with gargoyle stops. Tower spire rises from
pierced and gabled parapet band with crocketed pinnacles.
Staircase turret has slit lights and octagonal spirelet.
Nave north and south sides have twin cross-gabled shallow
projecting transepts, each having a window of 3 trefoiled
lights with cinquefoil tracery in the 2-centred head.
Hoodmoulds have foliar stops and the valleys between gables
gargoyle water spouts. Three nave windows are each of 2
trefoiled lights with quatrefoil tracery in trefoiled heads:
hood stops are carved as animals and birds in foliage. On
south side westernmost window is a single trefoiled light with
tracery in the stilted trefoil headed opening.
North porch is gabled and has high plinth and moulded band.
Doorway is chamfer stopped, with 2-centred arch of 4 moulded
orders and crocketed impost band. Outer order inscribed: LET
US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. Double doors are glazed and
panelled with square head. Arch tympanum filled with circular
panel and spandrels carved in relief with foliage. Hoodmould

has head stops and relieving arch above is studded with red
and green coloured stones: likewise gable apex.
West end: four trefoil headed lights in pointed openings with
impost band enriched with nailhead mouldings. West window is a
rose, of five trefoiled lights, beneath semicircular hoodmould
returned and stopped with couchant gargoyles.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6178252625

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549189

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