Church Of The Holy Trinity

MIDDLESBROUGH JAMES STREET NZ 51 NW (5119) (north side), North

Ormesby. 4/43 Church of the Holy Trinity. - II Church, 1868/69, with tower 1880/81, by William White (London); Allison Bros., builders. Extended 1879 by Armfield and Bottomley; Lady chapel 1925; south-west porch 1929. Nave and chancel gutted by fire 1977. Brick; Welsh slate roof. South-west tower, remains of nave arcades, north and south aisles and porch. Early English style. Double-chamfered plinth, angle buttresses and buttresses between bays. 5-stage tower has slightly-projecting west porch, with renewed double doors under blocked fanlight, in 5-stepped round-headed surround. Brass tablet in cusped niche in left buttress records building, architect and builder. 2-stage vice at south-west angle. Round-headed windows in lower 3 stages; 4th stage has tall deeply-recessed bell openings with louvres in 4-stepped surrounds. Clock faces in similar wide round-headed surrounds in 5th stage. Hoodmoulds, and strings between stages. Straight parapet and octagonal pyramidal-roofed bartizans at angles, with blind round-headed windows, moulded cornices and crocket finials. 5-bay south aisle and 4-bay north aisle, with paired cusped windows. North has boarded double doors in round-headed opening in 3rd bay; south has similar in pointed surround in 4th bay and late-C20 7-light mullioned window in 5th bay. One-bay porch has boarded double doors in canted west return. INTERIOR : 3-bay nave arcades of 2 hollow-chamfered orders on piers keeled at angles, with carved foliate stone capitals and chamfered bases; round responds and continuous hoodmould. boarded doors at east ends of aisles. Octagonal marble font on chamfered square base. Late-C20 church adjoining east end, on site of original chancel, is not of special interest. Tower is important local landmark. Included for townscape value of tower.

Listing NGR: NZ5097419952