Church of the Holy Trinity

Church of the Holy Trinity

This Chapel of Ease, now redundant, was built in 1847 and designed by Stephen Lewin. It is constructed of stock brick with limestone ashlar dressings, with slate roofs featuring stone coped gables and cross finials.

The church comprises a nave with west bellcote, north and south aisles, and a north porch, together with a chancel that contains a north vestry and organ chamber. An ashlar dressed plinth runs around the entire building.

The west front, defined by gabled buttresses with chamfered corners terminating in triangular stops, is clasped by the north and south aisles. A moulded string course runs beneath the west window, which features plate tracery with two lancets and a quatrefoil. The west fronts of both aisles each contain a single lancet with an ashlar dressed head.

The nave is punctuated by regularly placed squat buttresses. On the north side, a gabled porch with a pointed doorway of 4 orders is positioned to the west. The doorway is flanked by 4 shafts on each side, all with crocket capitals supporting alternating orders of chevron and filleted rolls, with a hood mould and large head label stops. Plank doors complete the opening. A single lancet sits to the west of the porch, followed to the east by 2 pairs of lancets flanking a single lancet. Above runs a clerestory of 5 plate traceried openings alternating 3 quatrefoils with 2 trefoils.

A gabled vestry stands to the east, featuring a single curved triangular window and a tall stack with 4 small gables, each supported on 2 gargoyle heads.

The chancel has regularly placed gabled buttresses with chamfered sides terminating in triangular stops. Its north side contains a group of 3 narrow lancets, the east end has 3 tall narrow lancets (the central one taller), and the south side has 3 lancets. The east end of the south aisle contains a single lancet.

On the south side of the nave, a doorway sits to the east with a chamfered ashlar surround, flat head and plank door. To the west are 2 pairs of lancets alternating with 3 single lancets. The clerestory mirrors the north side with 5 plate traceried openings of 3 quatrefoils alternating with 2 trefoils.

The gabled west bellcote has a pointed opening flanked by nook shafts with ornate capitals decorated with chipstar ornament on the head.

Internally, the west window is decorated with chip star bands, nook shafts, hood mould and head label stops. The arcades consist of 5 bays on both north and south sides, with polygonal west responds, octagonal piers and ornate corbelled eastern responds bearing large coats of arms and rich foliage. The arches are pointed with double chamfering.

The pointed chancel arch has 4 chamfered orders with triple rolled shafts descending to large corbels decorated with coats of arms, fruit and foliage.

A vestry doorway in the north aisle of the nave features a pointed roll moulded head with a broad band of foliage and 2 slender shafts on each side with stiff leaf capitals, alternating with rectangular jambs decorated with foliate and human head motifs. A hood mould and large head label stops complete the design. The organ chamber entrance is marked by a pointed, double chamfered arch with moulded imposts.

The chancel windows contain clusters of nook shafts with shaft rings, ornate stiff leaf capitals and chip star bands on the heads.

Roof construction includes tie beams: in the nave supported on plain moulded stone corbels, and in the chancel on angel stone corbels holding books.

The font comprises 8 squat shafts with ornate capitals supporting 8 elongated trefoil-headed arches decorated with chip star ornament. The spandrels rise up and merge with a round bowl. An octagonal stone pulpit base also survives within the church.