Church Of The Holy Trinity

OLDHAM

SD90SW ASHTON ROAD, Bardsley 780-1/3/12 (West side) 23/07/92 Church of the Holy Trinity

II

Parish church. 1844. By Starkey and Cuffley. Coursed and squared rusticated rubble with Welsh slate roofs. West tower, nave with 2 aisles and transepts, chancel with vestries each side. Heavy Romanesque style. 3-stage west tower with round-arched doorway with triple stepped shafts and interlaced lancet tracery and windows above, then clock. 2-light round-arched roll-moulded bell-chamber lights. Heavy strap-work to parapet. Clasping buttresses form pinnacles. Round-arched western aisle windows, with chevron moulding following line of parapet above. Each aisle divided into 4 bays, each with a shallow segmental arch sprung between pilasters, containing a single round-arched windows with shafts and chevron moulding to continuous hood mould. Similar wider segmental arch housing west windows of transepts. Triple light north and south windows to transepts with plain roll-moulding, and rose-window in gable apexes. Gabled vestries each side of chancel, that to south possibly a later addition. Stepped round-arched east windows to chancel with plain moulding. Billet moulding following line of parapet over. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, Nikolaus: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).

Listing NGR: SD9291901859