Description

TL 4239 HEYDON CHISHILL ROAD
(South-East Side)
23/137 Holy Trinity
Parish Church
GV II*
Parish Church. Late C15 nave, north and south aisles and south porch.
Vestry and chancel c.1866 Early English style. 'Church destroyed by Nazis in
Battle of Britain 1940, Chancel restored 1952, Church completed 1956,
Consecrated by Bishop of Chelmsford July 21 1956', inscribed on plain
spandrels of north door. Tower and part of north aisle, roofs to nave,
aisles and porch, and former embattled parapets capped with copper sheets
c.1955. Walls of flint rubble with limestone and clunch dressings and reused
material, C20 dark red brick, lead and copper roof coverings; chancel with
C19 plain tiles. South elevation. Square-planned red brick tower coursed in
english bond with wooden belfry louvred on each side and with copper clad
pyramidal roof with an ovolo finial surmounted by a weather vane. Nave,
aisle and south porch, coeval with capped parapets and moulded cornices.
Four large grotesque gargoyles. Three clerestory windows of two
cinquefoil-lights with spandrels and quatrefoil recessed in flat chamfered
arches; similar windows side-light the porch. Three aisle windows,
restored, of two cinquefoil-lights with vertical tracery recessed in moulded
four-centred arches with moulded labels. Chamfered plinth continuous around
porch and buttresses of two stages with offsets. South porch unbuttressed
with two-centred archway restored with semi octagonal responds, moulded caps
and bases. South door C15, with integral moulded ribs to feathered boards
studded to rear frame. Chancel of two unequal bays with three cusped
lancet-lights with labels and head stops; roll-moulded string below cill and
continuous around buttresses of two stages and above two-centred arched
priest's doorway; parapet gable with cross finial. Interior: Nave arcades
of four bays (north arcade rebuilt), with two-centred arches of two moulded
chamfered orders with moulded labels and foliate stops to nave, piers with
four semi octagonal shafts each with moulded caps and bases. Plain painted
brick tower arch and interior walls. C15 chancel arch, two-centred of two
chamfered orders with moulded label and semi octagonal moulded bases. East
window with three lancet-lights divided by marble columns with roll-moulded
inner arches. Two-centred arch to north vestry used as organ chamber.
Reredos of coloured marble blind arcade with gilded mosaic vine and cross
designs in panels, C19. Font, C14 restored, with plain octagonal bowl and
pedestal with moulded plinth. Fragments of C15 glass in south aisle
windows; east window by Kempe, south windows of chancel by Kempe and Tower.
Wrought iron corona lucis; brass lectern donated by Maydelene College
Cambridge 1909, with twisted pedestal and three supports capped with
fleur-de-lys. Monuments in north vestry. White marble tablet to M.S.
Horseman d.1881; white marble tablet to James Vaughan Esq d.1788; marble
cartouche with floral swags, angel head at base and with mask and cartouche
of arms at head supported by two cherubs, inscription indistinct, C18; black
marble floor slab to Sir Peter Soame d.1798 and two black marble slabs to
Anne Dame Buckworth Herne, d.1806 with details of her four children. The
tower was hit by a bomb in 1940, and collapsed on the nave and north aisle.
Drawings of church by Wm Cole C18, and one dated 1939 show the embattled
parapets and former tower with embattled parapets and apparently C15.
Pevsner. Buildings of England, p406
R.C.H.M. Report incomplete 1949

Listing NGR: TL4324739980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550673

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