Church of the Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican church built between 1857 and 1862 to designs by SS Teulon (1812-1873), with an extension in 1892. It is designated as a building of group value.

The church is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with dressed limestone details, all under a slate roof. The plan is based on an east-west axis and occupies a polygonal site, with the building primarily rectangular but tapering at the corner of Robertson Street and Trinity Street. The layout includes a vestry, chancel, and nave, alongside a south aisle and porch on the south-eastern elevation.

The architecture is Early English and Decorated styles, accentuated by a steeply pitched roof. The west end features two gables; the northern gable has a large six-light window with geometric tracery, while the southern gable contains a tall doorway leading to the south aisle, topped with a moulded arch, a large traceried tympanum, and a rose window. The north elevation has six cross-gables, with five containing three-light geometric traceried windows and one containing an arched doorway with a traceried tympanum above. The chancel, at the east end, has a semi-octagonal apse featuring three-light traceried windows between buttresses and gablets, all set against a trefoil-pierced parapet. The north chancel window displays complex intersecting geometric tracery.

A small, hexagonal vestry (1892 extension) stands almost detached to the east of the chancel, with ogee arch windows and a quatrefoil panelled parapet with pinnacles. A single-storey element runs back from the vestry along the north and south-east elevations. The south-eastern section of this element contains a small arched door with large spandrel panels, and three single-light and two three-light windows. The northern section has a door on its western elevation and a single three-light window on its northern elevation. A large entrance porch, with a hipped roof, a tall moulded arch, drip mould, and cubic impost blocks, is located at the east end of the south aisle. Above the arch is a heavily traceried tympanum depicting the Trinity.

The interior features a round font decorated with carved flowers and leaves. Around 1889, alterations included the addition of an alabaster and marble pulpit with a double staircase by WH Romaine-Walker, intricate carved decoration to the chancel arch by Thomas Earp, and an ornate rood screen by an unrecorded Belgian craftsman. A Lady chapel was added by Henry Ward around 1892, built into the base of the organ chamber.