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Lenton Holy Trinity

Official Listing Description

The following are listed:

The Church
A memorial in the churchyard
The churchyard railings and gates

Church

Parish church. 1842. By HI Stevens. Ashlar, with slate and concrete tile roofs. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave with clerestory, aisles, north porch, west tower. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill band, coped parapets and gables, shallow buttresses. Windows are plain lancets with hood moulds. Chancel, 3 bays, has a graduated 3-light east window, and 3 windows to south. Vestry, to north, has a single window to north and east. Clerestory has 5 windows each side, divided by pilasters. South aisle has 5 paired windows, and single windows to east and west. North aisle has 4 paired windows, and single window to west. North porch has coped gable with angle buttresses, with double chamfered doorway, and a window each side. Square west tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses and coped parapet with pinnacles. Chamfered west door under a gable, with single windows east and west. Above, a graduated 3-light window, with single windows north and south. Clock dials above. Bell stage has triple openings each side, with a clock to east. INTERIOR: rendered, has moulded chancel arch with single lancet above. Nave and chancel have arch braced hammer beam roofs. East end has a floral stained glass window to Francis Wright, died 1873, and an elaborate tile and mosaic reredos with figures, c1902. Wooden altar rail with bowed centre. North side has organ opening, south side a Tudor arched door. Nave has 4-bay arcades with quatrefoil piers and double chamfered arches. In the east bay, an ashlar and marble screen wall and pulpit, 1902, under a Perpendicular style traceried wooden screen and crest. At the west end, a 2-tier panelled gallery and screen, with glazed porches and screens below. North aisle has stained glass windows 1902, 1911 and 1931. lancet at east end with organ pipes. South aisle has stained glass windows 1873, 1897, 1914, and at the east end, 1873. Fittings include the outstandingly rare cubical font, mid C12, from Lenton Priory, with elaborate figure carving on 3 sides. Stepped base, 1904. Late C19 stalls and desks, mid C19 benches. Memorials include 6 marble and slate tablets, C19, and arch-topped bronze tablet, 1917, to Albert Ball. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 253-254).

Listing NGR: SK5545539310

Memorial

Memorial. Dated 1869. To members of the Shaw family. Ashlar. Square pedestal on a stepped base, with lozenge-shaped inscribed tablets on each side. Above, an interrupted octagonal spire, with 4 traceried gables, traceried band, and crocket finial. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK5543539316

Churchyard Railings and Gates

Churchyard railings and gates. 1842. Cast-iron railing, posts and gates, with brick plinth and chamfered ashlar coping. Round posts, spiked railings. The railing runs along the north side of the churchyard, then angles southwards to the churchyard entrance. Approx 120m long. Outside the north porch, a pair of gates with round posts and finials, originally with lamps. To south-west, a similar gateway to the churchyard. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK5541439291