Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is an Anglican church built in 1849 by W Railton. It was commissioned for Mary and Elizabeth Beckett. The church is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with herring-bone tooling, featuring ashlar details, and has steeply-pitched slate roofs with gable copings and crocketed finials. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The plan includes a five-bay nave with a south aisle and gabled porch, a chancel with a south door, north and south transepts, and a crossing tower. The exterior features elaborate scrolled hinges to the double doors. The nave has paired lancet windows, the east window has three lancets, the west end has four, and paired lancets with buttresses are located between the transepts. The two-stage tower is topped with a stone broach spire, pinnacles, lucarnes, and clock faces.

Inside, the church has octagonal nave piers, carved bosses to corbels, and a high Gothic arched ribbed roof. There is a tall moulded chancel arch; the chancel south door opens into a lobby area, opposite which is a studded and decorated door leading to the tower stairs. Original board doors are numbered for the pews. An octagonal stone font has niches, though the cover has been replaced, and there are choir stalls and a pulpit dating to 1961. Other 19th-century features include an eagle lectern given by Mary Beckett in 1880, and stained glass in the west window depicting prophets and apostles in memory of Sir Thomas Beckett of Somerby and Meanwood. Windows in the north transept commemorate Marian, wife of Thomas Wolryche Stansfield of Weetwood Grove, who died in 1861; the south transept window commemorates Christopher Beckett of Meanwood, the date of whose death is lost. The east window is a memorial to the founders, given by their brothers and sister, Sir Thomas Beckett (baronet), Edmund Denison, Henry Beckett, and Fanny Marriott. South aisle windows commemorate Thomas Wolryche Stansfield of Weetwood Grove, who died December 15, 1885, and a fine pair in Art Nouveau style in memory of Marian and Walter Rowley of Alder Hill, a knight of St John of Jerusalem, who died February 9, 1926. A plaque on the north wall of the chancel notes that the founders were daughters of Sir John Beckett (baronet), the Reverend George Urquart (vicar), Mr Thomas Midgley (churchwarden). The frequent use of the Beckett family name throughout the church compensates for the lack of an inscription on the family burial vault to the east.