Exmouth Devon
Church of The Holy Trinity. Exmouth Devon stands on an elevated position in the town.
It was originally built on this site between 1824 and 1825 for John, 1st Baron Rolle at the cost of £13,000 and replaced an earlier building dating back to 1412 on Chapel Hill.
The chancel was added by Lady Rolle in 1856.
It was described by the Building News and Engineering Journal in May of 1916 as, "a sample of the worst type of so-called Gothic churches built about 1830"
It appears that this 1824 church had by the turn of the 20c fallen into disrepair and was poorly maintained, so John Rolle's nephew Mark Rolle, commissioned a total re-modelling between 1905 and 1907, appointing architect George Halford Fellowes Prynne to carry out the works. The cost estimate at £6,092 went up to £15,000. External walls were re-faced with Ipplepen stone'; Mouldings, doorways and windows were replaced with Bath stone; Window tracery and doors were renewed, roofs reconstructed. The Lady Chapel was added to north transept; Minstrels’ gallery, organ chamber, vestries and new west galleries were built' Galleries in north and south aisles were removed; The chancel was lengthened by what is now the sanctuary. Heating was installed by Kinnell & Co. Windows designed by Fellowes Prynne and executed by Percy Bacon Brothers, gave a united scheme to fit in with the rest of the rebuilding. However it was not to the taste of Pevsner who said it had been "completely and regrettably renewed by the indefatigable Fellowes Prynne" A more praising anonymous report said "the architect’s new design did away with the angularity of the old church and produced the graceful and magnificent unity of style".
In February 1942 German aircraft dropped 3 bombs which exploded in the area of The Beacon. One bomb north west of the church and a great deal of the glazing in the north and south of the nave, including the those by the Bacon Brothers were badly damaged. Only the east window and those in the Lady Chapel on the east side of the north transept survived intact.
Chris Downer CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1477005
Exmouth Devon
Church of The Holy Trinity. Exmouth Devon stands on an elevated position in the town.
It was originally built on this site between 1824 and 1825 for John, 1st Baron Rolle at the cost of £13,000 and replaced an earlier building dating back to 1412 on Chapel Hill.
The chancel was added by Lady Rolle in 1856.
It was described by the Building News and Engineering Journal in May of 1916 as, "a sample of the worst type of so-called Gothic churches built about 1830"
It appears that this 1824 church had by the turn of the 20c fallen into disrepair and was poorly maintained, so John Rolle's nephew Mark Rolle, commissioned a total re-modelling between 1905 and 1907, appointing architect George Halford Fellowes Prynne to carry out the works. The cost estimate at £6,092 went up to £15,000. External walls were re-faced with Ipplepen stone'; Mouldings, doorways and windows were replaced with Bath stone; Window tracery and doors were renewed, roofs reconstructed. The Lady Chapel was added to north transept; Minstrels’ gallery, organ chamber, vestries and new west galleries were built' Galleries in north and south aisles were removed; The chancel was lengthened by what is now the sanctuary. Heating was installed by Kinnell & Co. Windows designed by Fellowes Prynne and executed by Percy Bacon Brothers, gave a united scheme to fit in with the rest of the rebuilding. However it was not to the taste of Pevsner who said it had been "completely and regrettably renewed by the indefatigable Fellowes Prynne" A more praising anonymous report said "the architect’s new design did away with the angularity of the old church and produced the graceful and magnificent unity of style".
In February 1942 German aircraft dropped 3 bombs which exploded in the area of The Beacon. One bomb north west of the church and a great deal of the glazing in the north and south of the nave, including the those by the Bacon Brothers were badly damaged. Only the east window and those in the Lady Chapel on the east side of the north transept survived intact.
Chris Downer CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1477005