Church Of The Holy Trinity

SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH LODGE STREET (east side)

1/41 Church of the 2/1/67 Holy Trinity

G.V. II Church. Rebuilt 1818-1820 by Thomas Taylor of Leeds with chancel 1889 by Crowther. Dressed stone and ashlar with slate roof. 3-sided gallery plan with central west tower and comparatively large chancel. 5-bay nave has weathered plinth and castellated parapet. Each bay has a weathered gableted buttress incorporating a gargoyle and a 3-light window with interlaced tracery. The tower is flanked by stair bays; it has 3 stages with diagonal buttresses, a door at ground level, moulded bands, arched openings on the second and third stages, a coped parapet incorporating gabled clock faces, corner pinnacles and a steeple with lucarnes. The 3- bay chancel is in an accomplished Perpendicular style having 3-light windows, a priest's door, buttresses with crocketed pinnacles and a 7-light east window. The roof is steeper and has a higher ridge-line than that of the nave. Interior: gallery on cast-iron columns, arch-braced roof trusses and a heavily moulded chancel arch. The chancel is lined with red sandstone and has double-hammer-beam roof trusses with angelic minstrels as well as a piscina and sedilia. Timber fittings and stained glass.

Listing NGR: SD9388816416