Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed church located in Fallowfield, Manchester, built between 1845 and 1846 by architect Edmund Sharpe. It features yellow, buff, and brown terracotta that mimics stone, complete with mason's tooling marks, and has a slate roof. The church is designed in the Decorated style and includes a nave with a south-west steeple, north and south aisles, and a chancel.

The three-stage tower is characterized by angle buttresses and a cusped south doorway set within a two-centred arched surround that includes two orders of moulding, set-in shafts with foliated caps, and a hoodmould with figured stops. The second stage has three-light windows with crocketed gablets, while the belfry features paired windows with transoms and diamond-pattern terracotta grills. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet, corner pinnacles, and slender S-shaped flying buttresses leading to an octagonal drum at the base of the tall octagonal spire.

The five-bay nave has a west doorway similar to that of the tower, a tall traceried four-light west window, and pairs of clerestory windows with terracotta tracery. The aisles are supported by buttresses and feature two-light windows with terracotta tracery and hoodmoulds, along with tiled parapets. The lower two-bay chancel has a parapet with mouchette openwork and a five-light east window with intricate mouchette tracery, and it is now surrounded by a 20th-century flat-roofed addition.

Inside, the church boasts five-bay arcades with two-centred arches on quatrefoil piers made of terracotta, which have heavily-foliated capitals. The nave and chancel are topped with scissor-braced roofs, with wall-posts rising from foliated corbels. The unique use of terracotta for construction was inspired by colliery owner John Fletcher, who suggested the material to Sharpe, drawing from colliery clay used for making fire-bricks.