Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built between 1830 and 1831, designed by F. Bedford. A chancel was added in 1903, designed by R. Knill Freeman. The building is constructed of stone with a slate roof. It comprises a four-bay nave extended by porches on either side of the west tower and a chancel with a south organ loft.

The nave has Y-tracery windows set between buttresses topped with crocked pinnacles; it features a cornice and parapet. The porches have entrances on the north and south sides, positioned below the windows and featuring label moulds. The west tower has octagonal turrets that become angle buttresses above the roofline, with two raised bands of cusping below. A four-centred arch provides access, with a band of tracery above and a blind lancet window. The tower’s cresting features a kneeling camel (the Ridgway family crest), a four-faced clock, and Y-tracery louvred bell openings, topped by a pierced embattled parapet. Stepped lancets flank the porches, the innermost lancet being the tallest. Ornate iron railings are positioned alongside access to a basement. The chancel is shallow, with a four-light traceried window above three memorial slabs, the earliest dated 1952. The organ loft has a three-light double-chamfered-mullioned window and a doorway. Two stones set into the south side of the nave display the Ridgway family arms and crest, potentially taken from the original east end.

Inside, the nave has chamfered diagonal piers that support three galleries and a plaster rib vault. A free-standing monument to Joseph Ridgway (died 1842), designed by R. Westmacott, includes a robed woman kneeling at a prie dieu. There are also various other memorials and hatchments. A stained glass window in the south aisle dates from 1874. The chancel east window is from 1927, incorporating earlier decorative glass and the Ridgway family arms in the tracery head. A reredos, complete with cresting and a canopy, was installed in 1923. At the west end of the nave is an original box pew. A board records payments to church officials made in 1854, and a pumping handle is located in a gallery. The church was largely funded by the Ridgway family.