Holy Trinity School

Holy Trinity School is a school building dating from 1885, designed by Henry and Medland Taylor. Constructed from red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, it features a Welsh slate roof with ashlar sandstone gables and crested clay ridge tiles. The building is irregular in layout, comprising four parts: an apsidal west end, projecting hipped wings to the north and south, and a gabled east end with a hipped-roofed entrance tower on the north-east corner.

The east elevation has an advanced gable to the south, featuring four pointed lancet windows on the ground floor, and four more on the first floor, the outer pair being lower, all with cusped window joinery. Ashlar cill bands and gabled pilasters feature between the first-floor windows. Recessed panels between buck strings are present, with outer panels blind and inner panels showcasing foliage moulding and shields bearing the date A.D. 1895. The central gable is set back, displaying shallow ground floor windows below four first-floor lancets with a linked brick hood mould and an arcade of blind pointed arches following the slope of the gable apex.

The entrance tower, incorporating a staircase, is positioned on the north-east corner. It has an altered ground floor doorway with a stilted arched head and moulded brick hood with stone foliage stops, and five pointed arch-headed windows above an ashlar cill band; the two outer openings are blind. The north elevation includes a gabled cross wing to the east end with a single ground floor window, coupled first-floor lancets, and a blind arcade to the gable apex. The main range is recessed and exhibits a patterned arrangement of openings set between shallow buttresses. A square tower with a crenellated parapet and steep pyramidal roof rises from the west end, consisting of three stages with tall twin lancet windows with louvres to the upper stage and shallow, some blind, lights to the middle stage. Clasping buttresses with ashlar set-offs define the outer corners.

Inside, much of the original plan remains, including stair towers and glazed partition screens (formerly moveable) on the ground and first floors. Arch braced roof trusses and apsidal roof members are visible, supported by moulded corbels. A wall plaque commemorates the school’s opening in 1885, acknowledging funding from the will of George Heginbottom, land provided by the 7th Earl of Stamford and Warrington.