Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity, located on James Street in North Ormesby, was built between 1868 and 1869, with a tower added in 1880 and 1881 by architect William White from London, and constructed by Allison Bros. The church was extended in 1879 by Armfield and Bottomley, with a Lady chapel added in 1925 and a south-west porch in 1929. The nave and chancel were gutted by fire in 1977. The building is made of brick and has a Welsh slate roof.

The church features a south-west tower, remains of nave arcades, and north and south aisles with a porch, all designed in the Early English style. It has a double-chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, and buttresses between the bays. The five-stage tower includes a slightly projecting west porch with renewed double doors beneath a blocked fanlight, all set in a five-stepped round-headed surround. A brass tablet in a cusped niche on the left buttress commemorates the building, architect, and builder. The tower has a two-stage vice at the south-west angle, with round-headed windows in the lower three stages, and tall, deeply recessed bell openings with louvres in four-stepped surrounds in the fourth stage. The fifth stage features clock faces in wide round-headed surrounds. Additional architectural details include hoodmoulds and strings between stages, a straight parapet, and octagonal pyramidal-roofed bartizans at the angles, which have blind round-headed windows, moulded cornices, and crocket finials.

The south aisle has five bays and the north aisle has four bays, both with paired cusped windows. The north aisle features boarded double doors in a round-headed opening in the third bay, while the south aisle has a similar door in a pointed surround in the fourth bay and a late 20th-century seven-light mullioned window in the fifth bay. The one-bay porch has boarded double doors in the canted west return.

Inside, the church has three-bay nave arcades with two hollow-chamfered orders on piers that are keeled at angles, adorned with carved foliate stone capitals and chamfered bases, along with round responds and continuous hoodmoulds. Boarded doors are located at the east ends of the aisles. An octagonal marble font sits on a chamfered square base. A late 20th-century church adjoining the east end, built on the site of the original chancel, is not of special interest. The tower serves as an important local landmark and is included for its townscape value.