Description

YORK

SE6052SW GOODRAMGATE
1112-1/27/425 (West side)
14/06/54 Church of Holy Trinity

GV I

Parish church, now redundant. Early C12 nave and late C12
chancel; C13 south-east chapel, early C14 south aisle, and C13
and C14 south arcade; early C15 south chapel, north aisle and
north arcade; late C15 tower; 1792 vestry, enlarged 1823;
north side rebuilt 1823; south porch 1849. Restored 1973-4.
MATERIALS: coursed squared limestone; some rebuilding and
patching in brick; south aisle partly timber-framed; tile and
pantile roofs. Vestry of brick, some re-used, in irregular
English garden-wall bond with slate roof and brick stack.
PLAN: 2-bay aisled chancel continuous with 2-bay aisled nave;
north vestry; south-east chapel, south chapel of St James, and
south porch; embraced west tower.
EXTERIOR: east end is triple-gabled. Chancel has shortened
east window of 5 cinquefoiled lights beneath depressed
4-centred head; to south, base of original pilaster buttress,
to north C15 buttress. South chapel has renewed angle buttress
and blocked east window with 2-centred head broken by inserted
square-headed window of two cinquefoiled lights in chamfered
tooled surround. Similar square-headed window in east end of
north aisle. North side has plain plinth and 3 square-headed
windows each of 3 ogee-arched trefoiled lights; fourth window
blocked by vestry. Vestry has two 12-pane sash windows and
battered diagonal buttress at north-west corner. On south
side, gabled porch has 2-centred arch of 2 orders, the outer
continuous, the inner dying: 2-centred doorway is double
chamfered outside, inside has shouldered and corbelled lintel;
door is of moulded panelling. South-east chapel has restored
square-headed windows of 3 trefoiled lights with foiled
reticulated tracery in double hollow chamfered openings; two
renewed buttresses. St James' chapel has moulded plinth, two
reset 3-light windows between buttresses with gabled
pinnacles, and parapet over moulded eaves string: 3-light east
window in depressed 4-centred head. Pilaster buttress at
south-west angle rises into chimney stack with gabled cap
pierced by trefoils. Buttressed 3-stage tower on moulded
plinth has 2-centred west window of 5 cinquefoiled lights with
panel-traceried head in casement moulded surround. Top stage
has blocked opening to each face, of twin trefoiled lights
with traceried 2-centred heads, the blocking pierced by glazed
slits. String course to top stage, and embattled parapet to
rebuilt saddleback roof. 2-centred west window of south aisle
is of 3 trefoiled lights with foiled reticulated tracery in
the head and chamfered opening. North aisle has no west
opening. Except where indicated otherwise, buttresses are
2-stage.

INTERIOR: north arcade of four 2-centred arches of two
chamfered orders, outer order broach-stopped, on octagonal
piers with moulded capitals and bases. At west end, a fragment
of original walling and corbel-table is preserved. At base of
east respond is small recess with trefoiled ogee-arched head.
South arcade has two arches to south-east chapel springing
from octagonal pier with made-up capital of fragments of
stiff-leaf foliage: eastern arch is moulded with filleted
rolls, western one chamfered; eastern respond is
half-octagonal with moulded capital.
Nave arcade is of 2 unequal arches of two chamfered orders,
the inner continuously moulded, the outer on run-out stops at
head of octagonal pier: to west, orders die into tower pier on
defaced headstops. Tower arches are of three moulded and
chamfered orders, intersecting at the springing, and rising
from piers with octagonal nook shafts and moulded capitals.
Wide 4-centred arch to St James's chapel is of two
continuously chamfered orders with corbel stops carved as
suspended shields of arms: squint in wall to east of arch.
Timber-framing is exposed above openings in south wall.
South-east chapel has blocked shouldered doorway beneath
window and aumbry in south wall. South wall of St James's
chapel contains two large rectangular recesses and
trefoil-headed piscina with octagonal bowl on moulded column.
Vestry approached by door of raised and fielded panelling:
fireplace.
Roofs: nave and chancel roof panelled with moulded and
cambered ties and beams; ceiling of St James's chapel has
moulded beams with foliate bosses carved with indecipherable
shields.
FITTINGS: include: communion rail of column-on-vase balusters
with bowed centre section. Oak communion table. Panelled
reredos with bolection- moulded dado beneath Paternoster,
Commandment and Creed boards between sunk-panel pilasters.
Octagonal pulpit with two tiers of recessed panels to each
face and deep moulded cornice. Octagonal font on octagonal
waisted stem and base, and cover with moulded bell finial. Box
pews of C17 and C18 panelling with strapwork decoration and
utilising wide variety of hinges and latches. Hanoverian arms
in St James's chapel.
Rectangular board in moulded frame in St James's chapel,
recording 1743 benefaction by Mrs Thornhill for education of
poor girls. Two Lord Mayors' boards, sunk panelled in moulded
frames. C14 and C15 glass.
MONUMENTS: south-east chapel: Frances, wife of Sir Reginald
Graham, 1721, possibly by Charles Mitley. Nave north wall:
James Robert Fryer, 1840, and members of family, by Fisher,
York. North aisle, north wall: two tablets to Rev. James
Dallin, 1838, one as above by Fisher, York, one by J Flintoft
removed from demolished Church of St Maurice. North aisle,
west wall: tablet to Joseph Smith, 1827, and daughter, 1824,
by S Bennett, York. South aisle: tablet to Joseph Buckle,
1818, and wife, 1834.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 5).

Listing NGR: SE6043552050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of Holy Trinity at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17530619

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