Church Of The Holy Trinity

NZ 43 NW WINGATE FRONT STREET (East side)

5/38 Church of the 20/2/67 Holy Trinity

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Parish church. 1840-1 by George Jackson of Durham. Hammer-dressed limestone with mainly rendered sandstone surrounds; Welsh slate roofs. Aisleless nave with west porch and south-west choir vestry; chancel with vicar's vestry to north. Early English style. 4-bay nave with continuous chamfered plinth, sill band and clasping buttresses to east and west. North and south walls have buttressed recessed bays with single lancets and corbel tables. West end: gabled porch with restored pointed outer arch, bold dogtooth and single colonettes; flanking lancets in recessed wall panels and gabled bellcote above. Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. Choir vestry has 3 renewed fixed lights. Lower and narrower 3-bay chancel has chamfered plinth and sill band, stepped at east end; 3 lancets in south wall; clasping-buttressed east end has 3 renewed stepped trefoil-headed lancets under slightly-ogival hoodmould. Steeply-pitched roof with coped gable. Vicar's vestry has pointed-arched doorway to east and single lancet to north.

Unplastered interior. Nave roof has 7 combined king-post and scissor-braced trusses on eaves corbels with bowtell moulding. Worn double-chamfered pointed chancel arch on similar mid-wall corbels. Fittings: nave has 3 ranks of mid C19 pews; painted Caen-stone font with octagonal bowl on 5 colonnettes said to be after a design of Chantrey. Chancel has early C20 panelling and stalls. First World War memorial east window by William Glasby of London depicts Crucifixion and Saints Cuthbert and George.

Listing NGR: NZ4001237147