Highfield Trinity Anglican And Methodist Church And Boundary Wall

Highfield Trinity Anglican and Methodist Church, built in the 1870s, is a substantial example of Victorian Gothic revival architecture. Designed by John Dodsley Webster, the church was originally a Methodist chapel and has undergone alterations in the mid and late 20th century. The exterior is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs and featuring three octagonal gable stacks.

The church’s plan incorporates a chancel with a basement, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, transepts, vestries, and a south-west tower crowned with a spire. Notable external features include a blank-sided chancel with a triple buttressed east end containing several lancet windows with hoodmoulds and cross casements in the basement. The nave has through-eaves dormers with pointed arch windows, while the west end features a large, five-light pointed arch window with geometrical tracery and a projecting gabled doorway. The aisles have graduated triple lancet windows, with three cross casements in the basements. The transepts have cusped double lancets and a quatrefoil in their gables, along with cross mullioned basement windows. The south-west tower features gabled buttresses with octagonal turrets and spires, a double chamfered doorway, lancets, a clock face, and a setback octagonal spire.

Inside, the nave is characterized by a roll-moulded eastern arch, arcaded bays with round piers, and an arch-braced wagon roof. A Gothic organ case sits within the eastern arch. The aisles have lean-to roofs, and eastern bays incorporate choir galleries. Original 19th-century fittings include a traceried oak pulpit and a matching oak font. The church is surrounded by an attached boundary wall approximately 75m long, featuring five coped rectangular piers and four sections of wrought-iron railing.