Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built between 1849 and 1852 by Edward Banks, located on Church Street in Heathtown, Wolverhampton. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with tiled roofs and is designed in the Decorated Gothic style. The church features a nave with lean-to aisles, a southwest steeple, a north porch, a chancel, and a north vestry.

Architectural details include weathered buttresses, sill courses, and coped gables with crosses. The three-bay chancel has a five-light east window and three-light windows on the north and south sides, with buttresses that have traceried gablets. The vestry, which has a catslide roof, includes a gabled bay with an end stack, three ogee-headed lights to the east, a two-light window to the north, and a pointed entrance.

The nave features a six-bay clerestory with paired pointed lights between flat buttresses, a four-light west window with a buttress to the left that has beast corbels, and aisles with two-light windows that have head stops to their hoods. The south aisle has a three-light east window and the north aisle has a three-light west window. The gabled north porch has an entrance of one order with foliate capitals and return lights.

The three-stage tower has setback buttresses, a gabled south entrance with three orders featuring Tudor and ball flower designs, head stops to the hood, and applied tracery to the door. The tower also has a three-light west window with reticulated tracery, stair lights in the filled-in angles of the left buttress, lancets on the second stage, and a recessed third stage with pilaster buttresses and a corbel table. The bell openings are two-light and triple-chamfered, with head stops, and the broach spire features clock faces and two tiers of lucarnes.

Inside, the church has deep-arch-braced roofs on wall shafts, an organ loft to the north of the chancel, and a chancel arch on shafts. The nave arcades are supported by quatrefoil piers, and there is a rich arcaded reredos and an open traceried chancel screen added in 1902. The interior also includes a stone pulpit, an octagonal font, wall memorials such as one to Anne Jenks (died 1917) set in an aedicule, encaustic tiles in the chancel and memorial tiles in the nave, and stained glass in the chancel and some aisles.

The Church of Holy Trinity is a well-proportioned example of an Ecclesiological church with notable interior features.