Church Of Holy Trinity

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW CHURCH STREET, Heathtown 895-1/5/69 (West side) Church of Holy Trinity

GV II

Church. 1849-52. By Edward Banks. Sandstone ashlar with tile roofs. Nave with lean-to aisles, south west steeple and north porch; chancel and north vestry. Decorated Gothic style. Weathered buttresses; sill courses; coped gables with crosses. 3-bay chancel has 5-light east window and 3-light windows to north and south; buttresses have traceried gablets. Vestry under catslide roof has gabled bay with end stack; 3 ogee-headed lights to east, 2-light window to north, and pointed entrance. Nave has 6-bay clerestory with paired pointed lights between flat buttresses; 4-light west window, buttress to left has beast corbels; aisles have 2-light windows with head stops to hoods; 3-light south aisle east and north aisle west windows; gabled north porch has entrance of one order with foliate capitals; return lights. 3-stage tower has setback buttresses; gabled south entrance of 3 orders, Tudor and ball flower, headstops to hood, applied tracery to door; 3-light west window with reticulated tracery; stair lights to filled-in angles of buttress to left; lancets to 2nd stage; 3rd stage recessed with pilaster buttresses and corbel table; 2-light triple-chamfered bell openings, head stops; broach spire has clock faces and 2 tiers of lucarnes. INTERIOR: deep-arch-braced roofs on wall shafts; organ loft to north of chancel; chancel arch on shafts; nave arcades on quatrefoil piers; rich arcaded reredos; open traceried chancel screen, 1902; stone pulpit and octagonal font. Wall memorials, include that to Anne Jenks (d.1917), portrait in aedicule; encaustic tiles to chancel and encaustic memorial tiles to nave; glass to chancel and some to aisles. A well-proportioned example of an Ecclesiological church with good interior features. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.321).

Listing NGR: SO9312199830