Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10415
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/07/1961
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Holy Trinity Parish Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258726
Northing
281658
Street Side
Location
In the railed churchyard at the N end of an island site with W end to Stanley Road, set into the slope.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
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.
Reason for designation
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