Church of the Holy Trinity and Holy Mary the Virgin

Heritage listing

Details GRIMSBY TA2808SE CHURCH LANE, Old Clee 699-1/33/107 (East side) 06/06/51 Church of the Holy Trinity and Holy Mary the Virgin GV I Parish church. C11 Saxo-Norman west tower with C14-C15 parapet; nave arcades of c1170-90; crossing, transepts and chancel dated 1192. Reseated 1858, externally restored 1878 by Joseph Fowler of Louth, with new north and south transept walls, chancel, porch and crossing tower; further restorations 1935-7 by Robert Godfrey, involving wall repairs and underpinning. MAERIALS: early sections of west tower and aisles in random cobble, rubble and squared limestone, with ashlar parapets; chancel of limestone and ironstone ashlar; porch, transepts and crossing tower in rock-faced ashlar. Lead roof to chancel, remainder with slate roofs. PLAN: Cruciform: 2-bay chancel with north vestry, 3-bay aisled nave with single-bay transepts, south porch and west tower. EXTERIOR: Chamfered plinth, angle buttresses and buttresses between bays, coped gables with finials throughout, except for tower. Chancel: north and south sides have single lancets to east bay, twin needle lancets to west bay; triple east lancet with hoodmould. Vestry has pointed arched door and 2-light window. Transepts: sill string course; north and south sides have pairs of lancets beneath linked hoodmould, and vesica window above with continuous hoodmould; north transept has twin needle lancets to east and single lancet to west side; south transept has single needle lancet to east side. Low 2-stage crossing tower has upper stage with shafts to angles, pair of lancets to each side, string course, gargoyles to angles, plain parapet. North aisle: restored 2-light square-headed windows with reticulated tracery, small restored pointed door with hoodmould, round-headed west window. South aisl

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.