Church Of The Holy Trinity

SD 33 SW BLACKPOOL DEAN STREET

3/8 Church of the Holy Trinity

II

Church, 1878 and 1894-5, by R.K. Freeman: the east end with transepts was built first, as extension to east end of original 1836 church. Yellow stone with red stone dressings and slate roofs. Nave and chancel under one roof, north-west tower and transepts. In a free style of Decorated Gothic. Tower of 5 stages with light angle-buttresses and triplets of 2-light belfry louvres, battlemented parapet, and canted stair turret to the 3rd stage with pyramidal roof of red tiles. Very high nave with transepts of two gables. West front has angle-buttresses, a large traceried window, and blind arcading in the gable. Nave of 3 bays has pilaster buttresses and transomed 2-light windows, and transepts have very high 4-light windows with curvilinear travery in the heads. Interior: a single vessel as far as the chancel arch, with a very high nave arcade (without capitals) passing across the transepts, and separated from the outer walls by small strainer arches which define aisle-passages, and short tunnel cross-vaults. Pointed wooden tunnel roof with ornate hammerbeams in the form of angels. Good stained glass windows to south transept by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster.

Listing NGR: SD3073233848