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Holy Trinity Parish Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4146 / 52°24'52"N

Longitude: -4.0786 / 4°4'42"W

OS Eastings: 258726

OS Northings: 281658

OS Grid: SN587816

Mapcode National: GBR 8S.NSJP

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.8K5T

Plus Code: 9C4QCW7C+VH

Entry Name: Holy Trinity Parish Church

Listing Date: 21 July 1961

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10415

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Holy Trinity Church, Aberystwyth
Holy Trinity Parish Church,Trinity Place

ID on this website: 300010415

Location: In the railed churchyard at the N end of an island site with W end to Stanley Road, set into the slope.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

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History

First built 1882 to 1886 by Middleton and son; nave opened 10 August 1886 at cost of £2,700. Enlarged 1887, tower base and transepts consecrated 29 November 1888; chancel added 1897 by Prothero and Phillott of Cheltenham.

Exterior

Perpendicular Gothic; 5-bay chancel. Bull-nosed rubble masonry with freestone dressings, quoins, plinth band and stringcourses, etc, as well as to chancel blind traceried parapet and E gable end; stepped buttresses; crucifix finial to W gable, others broken. Slate roofs, tiled cresting, eaves band and pyramidal roof to tower. Three-light ogee double cusped nave windows with transoms and hoodmoulds, shortened to NW over pitched roof porch with 4-centred Tudor porch reached by steps leading from iron gated entrance. W front has shortened window over paired larger windows with more elaborate tracery and stilted hoodmoulds; central canopied niche. Plain tower faces; transepts have quatrefoil attic lights in square recesses over 5-light transomed windows. Two-light windows to chancel with hoodmoulds; 5-light E-window below 4-light louvred attic with ogee head.

Interior

Similar masonry internally; hammerbeam roofs and crenellated wall plates with shields. Panelled tracery crossing arches with polygonal bases; similar flind tracery over linenfold panelling to E wall. Vacant canopied niches in chancel; sedilia and double cusped piscina. Gothic metalwork reredos (? G Webb), polygonal font and pulpit.

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