Holy Trinity, Ramsgate, Kent
It seems an age ago, well these were different times, that I found a friend, John Vigar, was doing a tour of some East Kent churches. It had been some time since we last met, so I said I would go along, and he kindly waived my costs.
Of the four churches he was planning to visit, I had not seen inside two, so it seemed an ideal chance.
And then the world changed.
But, the tour was to go ahead, and plans were made to meet at Holy Trinity at eleven.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Dumpton and Margate now merge into one large town, spreading over the Isle of Thanet, so finding the church was given to the sat nav, which guided me down main roads to the church, where there was a parking space nearby.
Inside a service, mass, had just ended. I looked round and could see stations of the cross, icons. So this was high.
I can't claim to understand the different flavours of faith, but the vicar was very welcoming, he told me some of the history of his calling, the places he has ministered.
The church was well proportioned, but in the 1970s, a church hall was built at the east end of the church, making what is left, jarring.
But it is a fine, 19th century church, one built to serve the large community living near the harbour, rather than the old parish church at St Peter. This community would soon need a second new church, St George.
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Holy Trinity Ramsgate, a flint clad church, stands on the east cliff of Ramsgate close to the Royal Harbour. The Church was consecrated in 1845 and has always maintained a Catholic tradition, firmly anchored in the Anglican Church. Holy Trinity is a Resolution and Society church under the See of Richborough.
The principal Sunday Worship is a Sung Mass with sermon accompanied by fine organ music and the Rite used is Common Worship. There are masses every Tuesday morning and Wednesday evening. We have a thriving Sunday School and we have recently instituted a re-generation programme and we are now a church in growth. We also have an active choir that is always happy to accept new members. Come and join us, a warm welcome awaits you.
holytrinitychurchramsgate.com/about-us/
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Location
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BELLEVUE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
Kent
District:
Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:
Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:
TR 38669 65333
Details
RAMSGATE BELLEVUE ROAD TR 3865 SE (west side) 10/56 Church of the Holy Trinity GV II Parish Church. 1844-5. Stevens and Alexander of London. Coursed, knapped flint with Caen stone dressings and concrete interlocking tiles to roof. Nave with aisles and south porch and chancel in perpendicular style. Triple offset and pinnacled buttresses to nave and aisle west end, with double gable to west, and plank and stud door with label surround below large 5 light window. Smaller 3 light windows to aisles, west end, with arched 2 light windows elsewhere and square headed 2 light clerestory windows. Gabled south porch with arched and hooded surrounds to outer and inner doors. Simple offset buttresses to east ends of nave and aisles, and eastern bell gable. Small and plain projecting chancel. Interior: now used as church and church hall with panelled entrance lobby to both parts. Large double chamfered arcade on octagonal moulded piers, with similar channel arch. Fittings: pulpit and lectern, very dark varnished wood with much figurative sculpture, 1867 by J E Lock-Beveridge. The church cost £3000, with seating for 770, on a site given by the D'Este family of Mount Albion House (the children of Prince Frederick Augustus and Lady Augusta Murray) (Busson, Ramsgate, 106;) (See also B.O.E. Kent II. 426; Honan. Victorian Churches of Kent, 83).
Listing NGR: TR3866965333
Holy Trinity, Ramsgate, Kent
It seems an age ago, well these were different times, that I found a friend, John Vigar, was doing a tour of some East Kent churches. It had been some time since we last met, so I said I would go along, and he kindly waived my costs.
Of the four churches he was planning to visit, I had not seen inside two, so it seemed an ideal chance.
And then the world changed.
But, the tour was to go ahead, and plans were made to meet at Holy Trinity at eleven.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Dumpton and Margate now merge into one large town, spreading over the Isle of Thanet, so finding the church was given to the sat nav, which guided me down main roads to the church, where there was a parking space nearby.
Inside a service, mass, had just ended. I looked round and could see stations of the cross, icons. So this was high.
I can't claim to understand the different flavours of faith, but the vicar was very welcoming, he told me some of the history of his calling, the places he has ministered.
The church was well proportioned, but in the 1970s, a church hall was built at the east end of the church, making what is left, jarring.
But it is a fine, 19th century church, one built to serve the large community living near the harbour, rather than the old parish church at St Peter. This community would soon need a second new church, St George.
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Holy Trinity Ramsgate, a flint clad church, stands on the east cliff of Ramsgate close to the Royal Harbour. The Church was consecrated in 1845 and has always maintained a Catholic tradition, firmly anchored in the Anglican Church. Holy Trinity is a Resolution and Society church under the See of Richborough.
The principal Sunday Worship is a Sung Mass with sermon accompanied by fine organ music and the Rite used is Common Worship. There are masses every Tuesday morning and Wednesday evening. We have a thriving Sunday School and we have recently instituted a re-generation programme and we are now a church in growth. We also have an active choir that is always happy to accept new members. Come and join us, a warm welcome awaits you.
holytrinitychurchramsgate.com/about-us/
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Location
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BELLEVUE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
Kent
District:
Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:
Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:
TR 38669 65333
Details
RAMSGATE BELLEVUE ROAD TR 3865 SE (west side) 10/56 Church of the Holy Trinity GV II Parish Church. 1844-5. Stevens and Alexander of London. Coursed, knapped flint with Caen stone dressings and concrete interlocking tiles to roof. Nave with aisles and south porch and chancel in perpendicular style. Triple offset and pinnacled buttresses to nave and aisle west end, with double gable to west, and plank and stud door with label surround below large 5 light window. Smaller 3 light windows to aisles, west end, with arched 2 light windows elsewhere and square headed 2 light clerestory windows. Gabled south porch with arched and hooded surrounds to outer and inner doors. Simple offset buttresses to east ends of nave and aisles, and eastern bell gable. Small and plain projecting chancel. Interior: now used as church and church hall with panelled entrance lobby to both parts. Large double chamfered arcade on octagonal moulded piers, with similar channel arch. Fittings: pulpit and lectern, very dark varnished wood with much figurative sculpture, 1867 by J E Lock-Beveridge. The church cost £3000, with seating for 770, on a site given by the D'Este family of Mount Albion House (the children of Prince Frederick Augustus and Lady Augusta Murray) (Busson, Ramsgate, 106;) (See also B.O.E. Kent II. 426; Honan. Victorian Churches of Kent, 83).
Listing NGR: TR3866965333