Church Of The Holy Trinity

SD 82 SE 7/47

BACUP, Stacksteads, NEWCHURCH ROAD, Church of the Holy Trinity

GV II

Church, 1840-41, with chancel and transept 1873. Coursed dressed sandstone, low-pitched slate roof. Nave, west tower with small spire, chancel with south transept; in Norman style, except 1873 additions which are Decorated. Three-stage tower with pilasters, and gablets to the 2nd stage which carries an octagonal belfry finished with a small spire; moulded round-headed west doorway, blind arcade above, and round-headed west window containing 2 round-headed lights; clock faces in west and south gablets, tall round-headed louvres in cardinal sides of belfry. Wide 5-bay nave with pilaster strips and tall chamfered lancets. Gabled transept to south of chancel has angle buttresses finished as short pinnacles, 2-centred arched windows with tracery and hoodmoulds, doorway in angle of re-entrant, chancel has large 5-light traceried east window with a transom. Interior: simple vessel with panelled ceiling, west gallery with interlaced arcade front panelling; large rounded chancel arch with shafts and hoodmould; sides of chancel are 2-bay arcades with columns and semi-octagonal responds which have foliated capitals and 2 shaft rings each, roof has arch-braced hammerbeam truss; cylindrical pulpit of white stone with polished shafts, sculptured panels (Faith, Hope, Charity), in memory of Margaret Munn (d. 1873).

Listing NGR: SD8524821714