Church of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a parish church built between 1836 and 1837 by architect Thomas Penson, with extensions and additions made in 1894 by Eustace Frere. It is constructed from regularly coursed grey limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof that is concealed by coped verges and an eaves parapet. The original design includes a single wide nave and chancel with an apsidal sanctuary, while the 1894 additions include a baptistery, porch, south chapel, and a north-east tower with a vestry.

The nave is buttressed in five bays and is adorned with tall broad cusped lancets and crocketed corner pinnacles. At the west end, there is a gabled baptistery with a porch that extends at right angles to the north, which has altered the original west window and flanking lancets, now all infilled. The short sanctuary features broad cusped lancets with armorial shields as label stops, and it originally had a crenellated parapet and pinnacles, which have since been replaced by a late 20th-century splayed roof. The south chapel includes a Decorated-style window on the east and two on the south, along with a late 20th-century concrete parish room positioned at the angle with the nave. The north-west tower is topped with a tall oak-shingled spire, flanked by four corner spirelets and narrow gabled lucarnes above, with a gabled vestry adjoining to the west.

Inside, the sanctuary features rib-vaulting with dog-tooth ornamentation, while the nave has a panelled roof dating from around 1856 and an arch-braced roof in the bays of the baptistery. The fittings and furnishings are all from the late 19th century, including stained glass in the sanctuary and the east window on the south side of the nave. Holy Trinity has served as the parish church for east and south-east Oswestry since 1842, and its spire is a prominent landmark in the local area.