Site Event/Activity record ECC2241 - Pevsner survey of Holy Trinity Street, Colchester

Location

Location Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, Colchester
Grid reference TL 9962 2512 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Pevsner, Nikolaus (Mr)

Date

1954

Map

Description

Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, survey by Pevsner ' The W tower is the only Anglo-Saxon (pre-Conquest) monument of Colchester. Built with plenty of Roman bricks, and crowned by a recent low pyramid roof. Small W doorway and triangular head, a wholly Saxon feature. E arch into the nave with odd capitals of the responds in three steps of brick, without any mouldings. Saxon upper window, the bell-openings developed as twin windows but nor separated by a turned shaft or colonnette as usual. On the sides below that stage traces of a black arcade. The rest of the church is of 1886, except for the E end of the chancel with early C14 three light window with flowing tracery, the S arcade, which is C14 too, and the outside of the S aisle and the S porch, which are of the C15.- FONT. Perp, octagonal, with shields and knobbly foliage in the panels.-PLATE. Fine Mazer, C15'<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Serial: Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Essex. p136.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Holy Trinity Church, Colchester (Monument)

Record last edited

Mar 17 2016 8:55AM

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