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Holy Trinity Parish Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberaeron, Ceredigion

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2413 / 52°14'28"N

Longitude: -4.2608 / 4°15'38"W

OS Eastings: 245734

OS Northings: 262752

OS Grid: SN457627

Mapcode National: GBR DJ.0V3G

Mapcode Global: VH3JL.3XCQ

Plus Code: 9C4Q6PRQ+GM

Entry Name: Holy Trinity Parish Church

Listing Date: 31 March 1967

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 9995

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300009995

Location: Situated on hillside out of the town centre to SW, set back from the above the road.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberaeron

Community: Aberaeron

Built-Up Area: Aberaeron

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

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History

Originally built in 1835 for Colonel Gwynne by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury, it was rebuilt in 1872 in Early Gothic style, consecrated in 1875 and the tower added in 1878. The eastern apse was replaced in 1897/8 with the existing square-ended chancel by Messrs Prothero and Philpott of Cheltenham in memory of Rev W O Edwards (vicar 1867 to 1897).

Exterior

Nave with slightly lower chancel, SE chapel and 3-storey SW tower. Slate roofs with ridge cresting, bull nosed rubble walls with freestone dressings and gable parapets, band courses to W front. Openwork parapet and octagonal corner pinnacles to tower with weathervane on top on ironwork stand; angle buttresses, string courses, 2-light plate tracery windows (louvred to bell stage) with hood moulds. L-shaped lobby porch to base entered through pointed arch doorway with dog-tooth moulding and cushion capitals. 4-light W window with quatrefoil and sexfoil oculi, rosette roundel to gable; 5-light mixed Geometrical/Perpendicular E window; 2-light windows to N and S sides.

Interior

5-bay aisless nave with open arched braced roof on foliated corbels; pointed opening into SE chapel; chancel arch with hood mould and short marble shafts, foliated capitals and stops. 3-bay chancel with boarded and ribbed timber roof. Gothic fittings; stained glass of apse reused in chancel N wall.

Reasons for Listing

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  • II* NO.7 Portland Place, Dyfed
    Planned terrace between the River Aeron and the Parish Church; set back from the road behind railed and walled forecourts and overlooking the harbour to NW.
  • II Island House
    Opposite Holy Trinity Parish Church on the corner with Harbour Lane; on steeply rising ground.
  • II* NO.6 Portland Place, Dyfed
    Planned terrace between the River Aeron and the Parish Church; set back from the road behind railed and walled forecourts and overlooking the harbour to NW.
  • II NO.1 Harbour Lane, Dyfed
    Short row of frontages forward to the street and stepped in the slope, facing NE over the SE part of the harbour. Adjoining Island House and forming the NE end of an island site.
  • II* NO.5 Portland Place, Dyfed
    Planned terrace between the River Aeron and the Parish Church; set back from the road behind railed and walled forecourts and overlooking the harbour to NW.
  • II NO.2 Harbour Lane, Dyfed
    Short row of frontages forward to the street and stepped in the slope, facing NE over the SE part of the harbour. Adjoining Island House and forming the NE end of an island site.
  • II* NO.4 Portland Place, Dyfed
    Planned terrace between the River Aeron and the Parish Church; set back from the road behind railed and walled forecourts and overlooking the harbour to NW.
  • II NO.3 Harbour Lane, Dyfed
    Short row of frontages forward to the street and stepped in the slope, facing NE over the SE part of the harbour. Adjoining Island House and forming the NE end of an island site.

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