Description

THRUSSINGTON

SK 61 NE CHURCH LANE (East End)
5/168
1.6.66 Church of the Holy Trinity

GV II*

Church. C13-C15 and much restored 1877. Restoration by Goddard and Paget of
Leicester. Ironstone with limestone dressings and Swithland slate roof with
stone stack on nave E gable. Stone coped gables, some with cross finials.
Stepped buttresses, angle and diagonal buttresses. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel
and S porch. C14/C15 tower of three stages with plinth, NE projecting stair,
W window, 1-light above, clock faces to N and W, 4 2-light bell openings with
crenellated transoms, gargoyles, battlements and crocketted pinnacles. Nave
arch, now blocked, probably double chamfered. Three bay N arcade of c1300 with
double chamfered arches on octagonal piers and responds. Similar four bay S
arcade but with hood moulds and head and label stops. Perp clerestory with
3 2-light windows on each side. 3 1/2 bay C19 roof with braces curving beneath
collars. N aisle mainly C19 with 5 2-light windows. Double chamfered chancel
arch on restored polygonal responds. Late C13 chancel. On N wall a 2-light
window with Y tracery, arched niche and 2 square niches. 3-light E window with
Intersected tracery. On S wall 3-light with Intersected tracery and 2-light
with Y tracery. Double piscina with stiff-leaf capital and pointed trefoiled
arches with fillets. Hood mould with label stops. S door and small 1-light
to right. Chancel floor probably of Minton tile. C19 boarded wagon roof.
Mainly C19 S aisles with 3 3-light and 2 2-light windows, piscina with cusped
head and sedilia. Much restored many-moulded S doorway and S porch with double
chamfered arch. Octagonal font, probably C14, with carved head projecting from
one side, on C19 base. C18 and C19 wall monuments. Kelly's Leicester, Rutland,
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1881, and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6503615779

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534349

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)