Church Of Holy Trinity

Church of Holy Trinity

Church, built 1868–9, designed by George Fowler Jones.

The church is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings and a high chamfered plinth. Roofs are of slate and stone slate with ashlar stacks. Original guttering cast with nailhead mouldings survives. All roofs have gable crosses or crocket finials.

The plan comprises a chancel with south vestry; a 6-bay nave with 2-bay rudimentary transepts and north porch; and a north-east steeple.

The chancel east end features three trefoiled lights in pointed openings with traceried heads, continuous hoodmould and moulded sillstring, both returned on north and south sides. Above is a glazed cinquefoil sunk deeply in a carved roundel beneath a 2-centred hoodmould on corbel heads. Chancel windows on the north side are single trefoil-headed lights in pointed openings. On the south side, they are obscured by a vestry with pent porch. The porch doorway is chamfer stopped with a 2-centred head and a board door with ornate ironwork; the hoodmould has head stops.

The 3-stage tower with octagonal spire has an extruded 2-stage staircase turret to the north-east, both having high plinths and moulded bands to each stage. The tower's north face has a chamfer-stopped doorway with a 2-centred arch of 4 moulded orders, a moulded impost band, and a lobed roundel in the tympanum; the hoodmould is head stopped. The double door is of shaped panels with a square head. The second stage has slit lights to three faces and, to the north, a clock face in a moulded surround. Each belfry face has a louvred trefoil-headed light in a 2-centred opening with pierced head and hoodmould with gargoyle stops. The tower spire rises from a pierced and gabled parapet band with crocketed pinnacles. The staircase turret has slit lights and an octagonal spirelet.

The nave's north and south sides have twin cross-gabled shallow projecting transepts, each with a window of 3 trefoiled lights with cinquefoil tracery in the 2-centred head. Hoodmoulds have foliar stops, and the valleys between gables feature gargoyle water spouts. Three nave windows are each of 2 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil tracery in trefoiled heads; hood stops are carved as animals and birds in foliage. On the south side, the westernmost window is a single trefoiled light with tracery in the stilted trefoil-headed opening.

The north porch is gabled and has a high plinth and moulded band. The doorway is chamfer stopped, with a 2-centred arch of 4 moulded orders and crocketed impost band. The outer order is inscribed: "LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD". Double doors are glazed and panelled with a square head. The arch tympanum is filled with a circular panel and spandrels carved in relief with foliage. The hoodmould has head stops, and a relieving arch above is studded with red and green coloured stones; likewise the gable apex.

The west end has four trefoil-headed lights in pointed openings with an impost band enriched with nailhead mouldings. The west window is a rose of five trefoiled lights beneath a semicircular hoodmould returned and stopped with couchant gargoyles.

The interior was not inspected at the time of listing.