Holy Trinity Church And Attached Rear Boundary Wall.

Holy Trinity Church and attached rear boundary wall

Anglican church with attached rear boundary wall, built 1903–05 with alterations and additions in 1922. Designed by architect P.H. Currey, with extensions designed in collaboration with C.C. Thompson. The building is constructed from random rubble gritstone with ashlar gritstone dressings beneath a slate roof laid to diminishing courses, executed in the Free Gothic Revival style.

The church has an irregular cruciform plan, comprising a nave, chancel, north porch and vestries, and a south organ chamber. From the south organ chamber, a south aisle was planned to extend westwards but this was never completed.

The east end faces onto the road and features a stepped gabled front with the left-hand gable set back. Side wall buttresses flank a small 2-light pointed arched window at high level. The chancel gable to the right has pilaster buttresses and a 3-light east window with hood mould and block stops below a small niche with a corbelled hood.

The north side displays twin asymmetrical gables serving the vestries. The eastern gable has a 3-light flat-headed window with cusped lights and a doorway with a chamfered ashlar surround and arched head. The western gable has a 5-light flat-headed window. Further west, the set-back nave north wall has a segmental arch-headed 3-light window set between shallow buttresses.

At the west end is a gabled north porch with an extended apex forming a bell canopy. The porch is half-timbered with a deep masonry plinth and a wide east doorway with a semi-circular arched head and studded, planked double doors with heavy Arts and Crafts style strap hinges and door furniture. The north side wall of the porch features a shallow 6-light timber mullioned window.

Extending north-eastwards from the porch is a dog-legged masonry retaining wall with saddle-back copings and a low terminal pier flanking a short flight of stone steps leading down to a basement beneath the west end of the nave. This basement has an ashlar-framed, flat-headed doorway with a planked and studded door with heavy strap hinges.

The nave west gable has ashlar copings, shallow corner buttresses and a broad, shallow pointed arched 6-light west window with cusped lights. The south side wall shows infilled openings of a 5-bay arcade, originally intended for the planned south aisle. These are now occupied by wide shallow buttresses and small 2-light windows with leaded glazing. At the east end stands the incomplete gable of the organ chamber, with canvas covering to the gable apex.

At the junction of the nave and chancel roofs sits a low, diagonally-set square bell tower with a shallow pyramidal roof.

The interior of the nave comprises 5 bays with arch-braced collar trusses with short king posts, and intermediate open collar trusses. The chancel has a 3-bay waggon roof with collar beams and slender king posts. The south wall of the nave features an infilled arcade incorporating octagonal columns with stylised foliated capitals below stepped and chamfered pointed arches. The chancel south wall has a pointed arched opening to the organ chamber and plain sedilia.

The furnishings include a contemporary chancel screen with shallow canopy and miniature tracery between plain chamfered mullions. The choir stalls, reading desk and table, altar rail and pulpit are of matching design and are probably by Currey.