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Former Holy Trinity Church

Trinity Medical Centre, 1, Goldstone Villas, Hove, BN3 3AT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187541
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: Former Holy Trinity Church
Statutory Address:: Trinity Medical Centre, 1, Goldstone Villas, Hove, BN3 3AT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187541
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: Former Holy Trinity Church
Statutory Address 1:: Trinity Medical Centre, 1, Goldstone Villas, Hove, BN3 3AT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Trinity Medical Centre, 1, Goldstone Villas, Hove, BN3 3AT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28836 05121

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 October 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ2805SE 579-1/14/9

HOVE 1 Goldstone Villas Trinity Medical Centre Former Holy Trinity Church

(Formerly listed as Holy Trinity Church, BLATCHINGTON ROAD)

GV II Former church. 1863-4, tower built 1866, north aisle 1868, external pulpit added 1912, two robing rooms for the choir inserted under the gallery in 1949, one of which became the vicar's office in 1975. The church became redundant in 2007 and opened as a medical centre in 2017 Designed by a local architect, James Woodman, (builder Mr Cane), in a style described variously as Lombardo-Gothic, Early English, or "one where the details are ignorant beyond belief"; possibly the ecclesiastical-eclectic style. Red brick with coloured brick in arches to window openings, Bath stone dressings including string courses and cornices, asbestos slate roofs, coped verges.

Plan: four bay aisled nave, nave extended west with large gallery over vestry rooms, polygonal apse, north-east organ bay and south-east vestry with attached external pulpit; entrance via the base of the tower on south front. Crenellated three stage tower, two-light bell-openings, arcade of interlocking arches on south front below clock, pointed arch openings at ground floor level now closed by glass doors, two stage stair turret on west front. The aisles are lit from the east end by rose windows, as is the west end of the nave. The flat-roofed external pulpit is built of red brick with Bath stone dressings and has Ionic pilasters supporting a cavetto moulded cornice. It is approached by a short flight of steps with an ashlar wall; studded plank door to pulpit.

Interior rendered. Arch-braced roof to chancel carried on foliate corbels; scissor-brace to nave; unusual roof construction to aisles of two tiers of curved struts. Foliate capitals to arcade. Wooden gallery with pierced panels. Organ with stencilled pipes, 1883 by Harper of Bath; rebuilt 1926 and converted to electricity 1964. The font of Caen stone supported by columns of Sicilian marble was presented in 1878, the carved canopy in 1924. Sanctuary panelling, choir stalls and altar table date from 1924. Carpetted chancel. The pulpit, according to the church guidebook, originally "projected over the north edge of the chancel opening" but was replaced in 1934 by a freestanding wooden one. Stained glass by Ward and Hughes, with one window in the north aisle by Hardman. The intended spire was never built.

This is the only church in the Brighton and Hove area with an external pulpit, indicative of the evangelical traditions of its early days. This also explains the dearth of contemporary fittings. An interesting church of its type, occupying a prominent position in an important street.

Listing NGR: TQ2883605121

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Legacy System number:: 365486
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Sources

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Holy Trinity Hove A Short History, (1976)
Dale, A , Brighton Churches, (1989)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.