Church Of Holy Trinity

WORTHEN C.P. HOPE SJ 30 SW

5/134 Church of Holy - Trinity 21.3.68 - II

Parish church. 1843 by Edward Haycock. Uncoursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; machine tile roof has coped verges and plain corbel table. Nave with west bellcote, chancel, south porch and north vestry; lancet style. Nave: buttressed in 5 bays, broad lancets with hoodmoulds and continuous moulded cill band; gabled porch in second bay from west on south and gabled bellcote with twin pointed bell openings over 3-light west window; gabled vestry in second bay from west on north. Short one-bay chancel; broad lancet with hoodmould on south; east window similar to west window of nave but with hoodmoulds. Interior: multi-strutted collar and tie beam roof like that at Church of Holy Trinity, Middleton, Chirbury C.P. (q.v.); otherwise very plain, main feature -of interest being west gallery supported on 2 cast- iron columns; plain pointed chancel arch. Majority of fittings and furnishings including stained glass in east window (1867) are late C19. The church is set in a picturesque churchyard and is approached by a small wooden bridge (not included in this list) over a stream to south. B.O.E. p.152; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 7 (1905) p.549.

Listing NGR: SJ3409201489