Holy Trinity, Coxheath
Holy Trinity, Coxheath
Holy Trinity is a Grade II parish church in Coxheath, near Maidstone in Kent, in the Diocese of Rochester. Historic England lists it as a hospital chapel of 1883.
- Location
- Coxheath, Kent
- Country
- England
- County
- Kent
- City / town
- Coxheath
- Address
- Holy Trinity, Coxheath, Kent, ME17 4PN
- Postcode
- ME17 4PN
- Built
- 1883
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Rochester
- Parish
- Coxheath Holy Trinity
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed ragstone with slate roof
- Grid reference
- TQ 741 513
- Opening hours
- The church opens for various events during the week and the latest times can be found on our website. If you are a visitor and would like to see inside our church please contact us and we will be happy to show you around. Contacts are available between the following hours: April to September 10am to 4pm. October to March 10am to 2pm.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
The listing describes a chapel of coursed ragstone with a slate roof: a nave with lower chancel, aisles, transepts, south vestry, and north and south porches. The nave clerestory has three triangular gables with sexfoil openings; the aisles have six lancets and buttresses. Gabled porches have wood moulding and a blank trefoil. The south transept has an arched window with sexfoil and three trefoliated lancets, an arched doorcase and a gabled bell turret. The east front has an arched window with a circular light and triple trefoliated lancets.
Internally a five-bay nave has an arched-brace and hammer-beam type roof with trefoliated moulding to the spandrels on stone corbels and a quatrefoil frieze to the ridge. A stone chancel arch rests on short marble columns. The chancel has a ribbed roof. Stained glass of 1885 depicts the Crucifixion with a dove and Star of David above. Encaustic floor tiles cover the sanctuary and the middle of the nave; an octagonal stone font stands at the back of the nave. The chapel was built for the Maidstone Union Workhouse and later served Linton Hospital; after the hospital was demolished in 1994 the chapel remained as the parish church.