Church Of The Holy Trinity

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ATTLEBOROUGH ROAD SP39SE (East side) Attleborough 2/33 Church of the Holy Trinity GV II

Church. 1842. Designed by T.L. Walker. English bond brick. Slate roof has stone-coped gable parapets. Nave, apse, south west tower. Gothic Revival lancet style. 7 bays. Semi-circular apse has 2 pilaster strips and 3 lancets with brick hood moulds and stone head stops. Corbel table between pilaster strips and buttresses throughout. Nave has small east door in south corner. Thin closely-set buttresses. 6 windows to north and south have sill course. South west plank door. West front has stepped triple lancets; hood mould continues as string course. Small lancet below and to left. West window and tower west door have stone shafts and roll mouldings. Tower of 2 stages has angle buttresses of 3 offsets. Small lancet above door. Small blind north window; large south window. String course. Second stage has pilaster strip and angle piers. Narrow bell openings have louvres. All openings have stone head stops. Upper part of parapet and stone octagonal spire are C20. Interior is plastered. Apse windows have continuous hood mould. Stepped triple arches to nave have slender shafts. Nave has queen post roof with struts and wall posts on head corbels, ceiled above collar beam. Deep west gallery on 2 shafts. Fittings: C19 encaustic tile flooring. Octagonal font of 1901 has clustered shafts. The church was 'given by the principal landowners and inhabitants of the densely populated parish of Nuneaton' and cost 2,629 pounds. The site was provided by the Earl of Harrowby. (VCH: Warwickshire, Vol IV, p165; Buildings of England, Warwickshire, p78-79; Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire, 1894, p25)

Listing NGR: SP3700090861