OS grid reference SU 677 270 Country England Founder(s) William Nicholson Phone +44 117 930 9655 | Location Privett, Hampshire Denomination Anglican Opened 1878 Architect Arthur Blomfield | |
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Website Churches Conservation Trust Address Merepond Ln, Privett, Alton GU34 3PE, UK Architectural styles Gothic Revival architecture, English Gothic architecture Similar St Mary's Church - Itchen Sto, Basing Park, Boxgrove Village Hall, St Peter's Church - Petersfield, King John's House | ||
The Church of the Holy Trinity, Privett, is a redundant Anglican church in the parish of Froxfield, Hampshire. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
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History
In 1863, William Nicholson of the firm of J&W Nicholson & Co, gin distillers, bought the nearby estate of Basing Park. Many of the buildings in Privett (now a conservation area) were built by him for workers on his estate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity was also built at his expense. It was designed by Sir A W Blomfield and built between 1876 and 1878. A Chapel of the Holy Trinity at Privett was first recorded in 1391, but any remaining evidence of it disappeared when the present church was built on the same site. The size of the new church far outstripped the requirements of the small rural parish, and it eventually became redundant in the 1970s.
Architecture
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the church as "exceptionally good" and like "a substantial town church".
Exterior
The church, in Gothic Revival (Early English) style, is built of flint with Bath Stone dressings. The chancel has north and south chapels or transepts, while the nave has four bays with aisles and clerestory, and a porch to the north. The tower, with broach spire, gargoyles, buttresses and three tiers of lucarnes, is 160 feet (48.8 m) high and forms a prominent landmark.
Interior
The nave has four-bay arcades, a lofty tower arch, a square font on pillars with stiff-leaf carving, a round stone pulpit and an intricate wrought iron lectern. The chancel is sumptuously appointed with a mosaic floor, sedilia and reredos with arcading.