Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed church built between 1862 and 1865, consecrated on July 16, 1865, by W H Crossland. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The church has a symmetrical cruciform plan, consisting of a seven-bay nave with lean-to aisles, a blocked south porch, single-bay transepts, and a two-bay chancel with single-bay lean-to aisles. At the crossing, there is a square tower designed in the Early English Gothic style.

The tower includes angle buttresses that terminate in squat crocketed pinnacles and has paired, louvred bell-chamber openings. A pierced bracketed parapet sits atop the tower, behind which rises a tall, stone octagonal spire adorned with three pierced ashlar bands. The aisles and clerestory feature short paired lancets with a cinque foiled circle above, while the west bay is blank. The west door is notable for its two orders of colonettes and a polychromatic arch, with the tympanum infilled with fishscale decoration. The large five-light west window has a four-spoked wheel in its head, and the north and south transept windows are four-light with foiled circles above. The large five-light east window features a sexfoiled circle in its head.

Inside, the church has a simple south bay arcade with a single moulding on short round piers made of alternate red and grey granite, featuring very elaborate capitals carved with figure-heads and foliage. The clerestory is marked by colonnettes forming an arcade. The tower arches rest on giant columns, each corner enhanced by an additional red-granite colonnette. The roofs are scissor-braced. There is a chapel to the south, enclosed by parclose screens, one of which contains stained glass. An organ is located to the north. The east window has stained glass by F Preedy, while other glass may be by Clayton and Bell. A small octagonal font dated 1713 is present, along with a finely-carved pulpit made of Caen stone featuring figures set in niches. The reredos is also made of Caen stone, consisting of four relief panels and a central sculpted panel of the Last Supper, which is brought forward under a later wooden baldachino. This large and impressive church serves as an important landmark in the area.