Description

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

SJ84NW CHURCH STREET, Chesterton
644-1/3/60 (East side)
27/09/72 Church of Holy Trinity

II

Church. 1851-2. By H. Ward and Son of Hanley. Coursed and
squared red sandstone rubble, with plain tiled roof with
scalloped bands and ridge cresting. North-west tower, nave,
two aisles, chancel. 3-stage tower and brooch spire with 2
lucarnes. Decorated paired bell-chamber lights, corbel table.
Shafts to south doorway with heavy plain hood mould. Foiled
lancets to south aisle, grouped foiled lancets to north.
Lancet windows divided by central buttress in west wall, with
trefoil over. 3-light Early English style window with
continouous hood mould and trefoiled light over to chancel,
which has clasping angle buttresses with gablets and
ball-flower decoration.
INTERIOR: nave arcade of 5 bays to north with cylindrical
shafts with double-chamfered arches. Octagonal piers and
cylindrical shafts to south arcade of 2 bays, interrupted by
archway to tower, which is carried on corbels. North aisle
windows recessed in paired trefoiled arches with central
shaft. South windows are lancets in deep splayed embrasures.
Nave roof with long raking trusses carried on corbels with
collar and wind-braces. Chancel arch with responds that appear
to cut the deep moulded archway. Chancel roof has braced
rafters with collars. Oak altar, rails and reredos. Sedilia to
south. Chancel screen is wrought-iron, a delicate design
incorporating flowers and foliage. Stained glass: east window
by Wailes, brightly coloured figures of Saint John and Christ,
with dove in trefoil over; other unattributed windows in north
aisle (1895) and east window of south aisle. Fragment of tomb
slab or cross portraying figure carrying spear(?) c.800, and
interlace decoration, found on nearby farm. Medieval font,
octagonal with deep ogee moulding on each face.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire:
Harmondsworth).

Listing NGR: SJ8314749431

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491040

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version