Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a chapel of ease that has become a parish church, built in 1843 by Edward Haycock. It is constructed from uncoursed limestone and shale rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with machine tile roofs featuring coped verges on stone kneelers. The church includes a nave, chancel with a polygonal apse, transepts, a south-west vestry, and a west porch, all designed in a lancet style. The nave consists of two bays with lancet windows that have hoodmoulds, and a moulded string course that runs around the rest of the church on the north side. The west porch is gabled and features a bellcote at the west gable. The transepts have paired lancets in both the north and south walls, with hoodmoulds on the north side, while the south transept has a lean-to vestry attached to the west. The short, one-bay chancel has a polygonal apse with lancets on the easternmost sides, all equipped with hoodmoulds.

Inside, the nave has a multi-strutted collar and tie beam roof in five bays, likely designed by Haycock. A wooden board in the north transept commemorates the chapel's erection in 1843. Most of the church's fittings and furnishings were created by Reverend Waldegrave Brewster, who served as vicar from 1872 to 1901. Between 1876 and 1884, he carved the capitals of the octagonal red sandstone pillars in the transepts with signs of the Zodiac on the south side and agricultural scenes on the north side. He also crafted the corbels for the sanctuary arch, featuring a woman's head on the north side and a green man on the south side, along with stone corbel heads for the wooden vaulting in the sanctuary. Brewster was responsible for the mosaic altar, dado panelling, font, and the carved bench ends in the nave and chancel, which display a variety of animal, human, and grotesque heads. Additional features from his time include painted mural decorations, an altar rail with twisted iron supports, and wrought-iron candelabra attached to the nave walls and benches. The stained glass in the sanctuary was created by Kempe and Tower in 1915. The parish of Middleton was established in 1845, formed from parts of Chirbury and Church Stoke in Powys.