Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Swyre
Description: Parish Church of Holy Trinity
Grade: I
Date Listed: 5 September 1960
English Heritage Building ID: 403955
OS Grid Reference: SY5280888237
OS Grid Coordinates: 352808, 88237
Latitude/Longitude: 50.6919, -2.6695
Location: Bull Lane, Swyre, Dorset DT2 9DN
Locality: Swyre
Local Authority: West Dorset
County: Dorset
Country: England
Postcode: DT2 9DN
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Listing Text
SY 58 NW SWYRE SWYRE VILLAGE
6/251 Parish Church
of Holy Trinity
5-9-60
GV I
Parish Church. C15 west tower and chancel-arch. Nave and chancel
rebuilt in 1843. Vestry and organ-chamber added in 1885. Shallow
rubble-stone walls. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings and
fleur-de-lis apex-blocks. West Tower, Nave, North Porch, Chancel.
West Tower 2 stages with diagonal buttresses and set-offs. Blocked
west door with moulded jambs. 2-light window over with cusping and
Y-tracery head. String-course. Thin loop in the bell-stage. Flat
parapet. Half-octagonal newel-stair on south wall, terminates
below the string. Nave, 3 bays externally, 3-light window with
trefoil-cusped heads and tall panel tracery over. Quatrefoil-
fleuron in head. Hollow-chamfered jambs, C19. North porch, C19,
with a wide 2-centred archway with a continuous bracket-moulding.
Gabled slate roof with a stone coping North doorway, partly
late C14, with moulded jambs and 2-centred head. Chancel, with
a 3-light east window of the same design. Label over. Interior:
Tower-arch, moulded with 2 sets of responds and plain capitals.
Nave: 'Gothic' refashioning into 4½ bays of quadripartite
vaulting, bossed at the intersections, with responds and capitals,
all coloured blue. Roof of pointed segmental profile. North
doorway has a 'Gothic' surround with curvilinear head and standards
to either side. Chancel roof, barrel vaulted and in 16 compartments.
Fittings: Font, stone octagonal bowl with quatrefoils-in-circles.
Octagonal stem and base, C15. Brasses: nave north wall, 1) to
James Russell esquire and Alys (Wise) his wife, 1509, with shield-
of-arms of Russell impaling Wise. 2) To John Russell and Elizabeth
(Frocksmer), his wife, 1505, with shield-of-arms of Russell
impaling Frocksmer. Both brasses reset in 'Cl6-style' stone
frames. Wall Monument, chancel, to James Napier, Gent., brother
of Sir Alexander Napier of Marchiston (sic). (Long inscription on
descent of the Napier family from Scotland to Dorset.) Monument
erected AD 1692. Open swan-necked pediment with skulls and central
urn. Cornice with palmette and cherub. Pilasters garlanded with
carved fruit and flowers. Coat of arms at bottom under cill.
RCHM Dorset I, p 229 (1).
Listing NGR: SY5280588237
Source: English Heritage
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