Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a large, Free Perpendicular style church built in stages between 1895 and 1913, designed by Huon Matear of Liverpool and constructed by Messrs. Woods of Bolton. It is the third church on this site, dating back to 1837. The church is mainly glazed red brick with Portland stone and some sandstone dressings, with late 20th-century fibreglass replacing the original stone pinnacles on the tower. It has a slate roof.

The church's plan includes a nave with a four-stage north-west tower, north and south aisles, a north transept, a chancel, a north chapel, and a south vestry. The tower's lower half is brick with stone bands, while the upper section is stone, with pinnacles and plain angle buttresses. The west doorway is protected by a gabled stone arch with carvings, and the north doorway is similarly sheltered with a gabled stone arch decorated with wheat ears. The third stage of the tower features tall moulded arches with traceried and louvred three-light windows, clock faces, an open-work balcony supported by segmental arches, and a crocketed gablet. An octagonal top stage has blind tracery and stepped parapets.

The west front of the nave has large octagonal corner turrets linked by a flying two-centred arch, incorporating three two-centred arches, each containing a tall recessed two-light window. A balustraded balcony sits below these windows, shielding two segmental-arched doorways. A stepped gable with blind arcading tops the front. The south aisle features a gabled porch and four bays of two-centred arches, each containing a large four-light window with Perpendicular tracery. The north aisle mirrors this style, and the transept features coupled gables, each with a three-light window. The three-bay chancel is complemented by flying buttresses over the north chapel.

Inside, the church is very tall. Five-bay aisle arcades feature octagonal columns without caps and two-centred arches moulded in three orders. The north transept is two bays with a cylindrical column supporting longitudinal and transverse arches, creating four cells of wooden rib-vaulting. A fine wooden rood screen, incorporating a pulpit, spans the large chancel arch. The chancel has a rib-vaulted roof. The organ case on the south side matches the screen, and a two-bay north arcade is filled with an elaborate traceried wooden and glazed screen. An elaborately carved and painted reredos triptych also features. Stained glass includes a memorial window to Lieutenant Eric Wood, who died in Ypres in 1916.