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Holy Trinity Church is a grade II listed
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Holy Trinity Church, 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2017. in a fifteenth-century Perpendicular Gothic style. It uses local materials such as Coleford red brick laid in Flemish bond, Guiting stone dressings, and
Holy Trinity Church is a grade II listed Church of England
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church in Longlevens
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, Gloucester
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. It was designed by Howard Stratton Davis
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and built in 1933–1934 in a fifteenth-century perpendicular Gothic style. It includes German and Dutch stained glass that was transferred from the Church of St Luke, High Orchard, Gloucester, after that church was demolished in 1934.
History and design
The church was designed by Howard Stratton Davis and built in 1933-1934Holy Trinity Church, 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2017. in a fifteenth-century Perpendicular Gothic style. It uses local materials such as Coleford red brick laid in Flemish bond, Guiting stone dressings, and
Delabole
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slate (from Cornwall) for the roof. Local blacksmith Alfred Bucknell made the cast-iron rainwater heads and other ironwork. The font was a gift of the freemasons of Gloucester. The church was consecrated on the 31 March 1934 and replaced a nineteenth century corrugated iron mission church, known locally as the "tin tabernacle", which was located nearby.
It is grade II listed
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with Historic England who describe it as notable for its largely unaltered 1930s decorative scheme which uses fittings mostly designed by the architect that remain a "remarkably complete suite". The majority of the stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...
is not original to the church with much German or Dutch of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It was a gift of the reverend Samuel Lysons
Samuel Lysons (1763 – June 1819) was an English antiquarian and engraver who, together with his elder brother Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), published several works on antiquarian topics. He was one of the first archaeologists to investigate ...
from the east window of the Church of St Luke, High Orchard
High Orchard was an industrial area of the city of Gloucester in England that was developed in the 19th century on the former orchard of the Priory of Llanthony Secunda (1136). The area was closely associated with Gloucester Docks immediately ...
, Gloucester, after that church was demolished in 1934. The east window to the chapel is by Molly Meager, 1989. There are two war memorial plaques at the west end.
References
Further reading
*Gloucestershire Archives D7942/514: Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens.External links
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