Church Of Holy Trinity And Attached Boundary Wall

Church of Holy Trinity and Attached Boundary Wall

Parish church with attached boundary wall, built in 1844 by the architectural firm Weightman & Hadfield of Sheffield. The building is constructed in ashlar with slate roofs and designed in the Early English style.

The church comprises a west tower with spire, nave with clerestorey and aisles, north porch, vestry, and chancel. The 3-stage west tower features a double chamfered plinth, three string courses, and a trefoiled corbel table to the bell stage. The west side has gabled angle buttresses. To the south-east stands an octagonal stair turret with pyramidal roof. The west face of the tower contains a moulded doorway with cusped head and single shafts (with a 20th-century door), and above it a single lancet. The south side has a single chamfered square casement. The second stage has single lancets to north and south with hood moulds. The bell stage has on each side a moulded bell opening with hood mould, containing an unglazed double lancet. The octagonal broach spire has three tiers of gabled lucarnes on alternate sides, a finial and weathercock.

The 5-bay nave has a coped east gable with a chimney stack to the south-east, and on each side five pairs of cusped lancets. An oval window sits in the east gable. The buttressed aisles, also of 5 bays, have chamfered plinths, sill bands, single lancets with linked hood moulds, moulded corbels and coped ends, each with a single lancet. The north aisle has a porch to the west, with three lancets to the left and one to the right. This porch features a coped gable with flanking buttresses, a double chamfered doorway with filleted shafts and hood mould, and a single lancet in each side. The south aisle has regular fenestration. The vestry, forming a single bay continuation to the aisle, has a lancet at the east end.

The 2-bay chancel has a plinth, coped east gable and gabled angle buttresses. All openings have hood moulds. The north side has a lancet to the left and a door to the right. The south side has a single lancet to the right. The east end has three graduated single lancets and above, an oval window.

The interior has a rendered finish with a common rafter roof with strutted collars and lean-to roofs to the aisles. The nave has 5-bay arcades, with the 2 south-west bays blocked. These feature round piers with plain capitals, double chamfered arches and hood moulds. A clerestorey sill band runs along the nave. The tower arch is double chamfered with round shafts. The north aisle contains memorial windows dated 1892, 1914 and 1918. The south aisle has memorial windows dated 1890, 1912 and 1917. The chancel has a plain double chamfered arch with round piers, moulded capitals and bases. Each side features a chamfered door and a memorial window (dated 1905 and 1906). The east end has a full-width blind arcade with cusped openings and single shafts, the three centre bays having crocketed gables. Above are three lancets with shafts and linked hood mould. Stained glass of 1894 is present.

Fittings include an elaborate traceried oak pulpit with figure carving, a traceried panelled octagonal font with marble shafts, an oak eagle lectern, a traceried screen resited in the south aisle, and plain benches. Memorials include a Classical marble tablet dated 1878 and an alabaster war memorial tablet dated 1919.

Outside, an ashlar boundary wall extends to the north-east, approximately 20 metres long. It has stepped gabled coping and near its centre a pair of square gatepiers with pyramidal caps and wrought iron gate.