Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church built between 1827 and 1830 in a plain lancet style, designed by Peter Atkinson Junior. The chancel is believed to be a later addition, possibly in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of ashlar masonry with slate roofs laid in diminishing courses. The building plan comprises a west tower, a nave with a south doorway, and a chancel with a northeast vestry.

The chancel features set-back buttresses and a triple lancet east window set within an arched recess. A blind lancet window is on the south side of the chancel. The nave has five narrow bays with pilaster buttresses and tall lancet windows without hoodmoulds. A steeply-gabled south porch has a chamfered two-leaf door with Gothic panelling, a crest, and a glazed overlight. The tower has clasping pilaster buttresses and large square-section pinnacles with pyramidal caps. The belfry windows are paired lancets with hoodmoulds. The tower’s west side has a tall lancet, and a half-glazed lean-to is attached to the south. A northwest extension was added in 2002.

Inside, the nave is galleried on three sides. The chancel arch has octagonal responds with moulded capitals. The three-sided galleries are supported by octagonal piers and plain cross beams, with a Gothic panelled gallery front featuring cusped blind arches and a later dwarf balustrade. A tie beam and queen post roof is present in the nave, with arched braces and braces from the queen posts to the collar. The two-bay chancel roof is an elegant arch-braced design without a collar, with braces springing from wall shafts. The chancel contains a panelled dado and an integral timber panelled reredos with a cornice and vine trail, bearing a memorial date of 1910. Later 19th-century choir stalls with a multifoil profile are also present. The font, dated 1887, has an octagonal bowl on a base of four pink granite polished shafts and a 1950s font cover. The area under the west gallery is glazed off. The nave possesses a dado of vertical boards with a brattished cornice. The nave and gallery benches have multifoil ends and backs with fielded panels. A plaque notes the gallery was reseated in 1898. Late 19th-century gallery stairs have stick balusters and stout turned newel posts with ball finials. The space beneath the tower, originally a baptistery, has a dado of blind Gothic panelling. The Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments are housed in frames within the gallery.

The church represents a two-phase lancet style, with a severely plain exterior but retaining all three galleries. The chancel and associated fittings date to the mid-to-late 19th century.