Church Of The Holy Trinity

SE13SW QUEENSBURY WEST END (south side), Queensbury

5/45 Church of the Holy Trinity

II

Church. 1843 by James Mallinson, east end restorations by T. H. and F. Healey 1885. North-west tower rebuilt 1906 and moved from west to north-west position. Ashlar. Stone slate roofs. Early English style. 6-bay aisled nave, north-west tower, 3-bay chancel with 2-bay north chapel and 2-bay organ chamber to south. The aisles are buttressed and have tall parapets with roll-top copings. Lancet windows with hoodmoulds. 3-stage square tower has angle buttresses rising to octagonal pinnacles. Very elaborate gabled doorway on north side with 3 orders of colonnettes and mouldings. 3-light bell-chamber openings with blind centre light. Clock face above to each side. Two 2-light west windows with plate tracery and octofoil in apex. 3-light east window with enriched clustered colonnettes, surmounted by well- carved angels, a beast and a bird.

Interior: Arcaded nave on tall slender octagonal piers. 2-bay tower arcade with well carved life-sized angel in octofoiled opening over. 2-bay arcade to north and south of chancel. Arched braced trusses to nave, king-post trusses to aisles. Elaborate and well-carved fittings. East window in memory of John Foster (d.1879), and his wife Ruth (d.1882).

F. Barrett, A History of Queensbury, 1963.

Listing NGR: SE1004630064