Church Of The Holy Trinity

HARTSHILL CHURCH ROAD SPS9SW (East side) 5/97 Church of The Holy Trinity - II Church. 1841-1848 by T.L. Walker. Hartshill granite rubble with red brick, blue brick and sandstone dressings. Plain-tile roof has stone-coped gable parapets. Nave and shallow apsidal chancel. Neo-Norman style. 8 bays. Moulded brick plinth, pilaster buttresses, and moulded blue brick corbel table throughout. West front has very large and deep portal of 6 orders; arches have zig-zag, ball flower, serpentine and other mouldings in blue brick. Sandstone shafts have scalloped, interlaced, waterleaf and other capitals. Chamfered shouldered doorway has double-leaf doors and roundel with cross in the tympanum. Narrow left and right bays have 2 tiers of windows between buttresses. Windows have blue brick roll-moulded round arches throughout. Gable has brick tumbling, and row of 4 blind quatrefoil roundels of sandstone. Large wheel window of sandstone with columns as spokes. Small square turret at apex of gable on 2 coved corbels with grotesque masks, and pointed elliptical louvred opening between them. Moulded brick string course, and stone pyramid roof. Bell chamber openings have simple outer arch, inner arch with sandstone nook shafts, and 2 louvred openings to each side. Return sides have doorways to first and eighth bay, with windows above. East doorways are bricked up; west doorway has plank door. Windows have continuous moulded sill course forming hood mould above doorways. East gable of nave has small turret with louvred openings and remains of stone cross. Semi-circular apse has 3 windows. Interior is plastered with moulded cornice and flase ceiling. -Arch to apse is unmoulded. West gallery on 4 shafts with scalloped capitals. The interior was redecorated in 1939 and 1948 by N.F. Cachemaille-Day. Stone octagonal Gothic style font. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire; p307)

Listing NGR: SP3271693940