Church Of The Holy Trinity

Church of the Holy Trinity

Church constructed between 1847 and 1851 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott. The windows were enlarged by Scott in 1878. The building is constructed in rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs with coped verges.

The plan comprises a 2-bay aisled chancel with a south vestry, a 4-bay aisled nave, and a north-west tower with spire.

The chancel has an east gable wall with angle buttresses with offsets, containing three lancet windows linked by a continuous hoodmould with carved stops. The north wall has a 2-light lancet window, and the south wall has a 2-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould.

The north chancel aisle features an east gable wall with a circular window in a moulded stone surround with tracery of three quatrefoils and angle buttresses with offsets. A gabled north-east porch in the angle of the chancel and aisle has a single-light window with hoodmould to the east wall and a small plank door in a shouldered chamfered stone surround to the north. The north wall of the north chancel aisle has a 2-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould. Attached to the west is a porch with a hipped roof and plank door in a shouldered chamfered stone surround.

The south chancel aisle has an east gable wall with a pointed window with three graduated lights and hoodmould, and angle buttresses with offsets. A vestry is attached to the south, featuring a lancet window with hoodmould to the east and two pairs of lancets with hoodmoulds to the south. The vestry has a cusped circular window and plank door with hoodmould to its west wall. An ashlar squinch passage occupies the angle with the south nave aisle.

The north nave aisle has two 2-light pointed windows with geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds on the north wall. A gabled porch with buttresses with offsets features a pointed doorway with paired shafts and moulding, fitted with late 20th-century iron gates.

The south nave aisle has three 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery and hoodmoulds on the south wall. A south doorway in a gabled projection has a pointed moulded hood on triple shafts with leaf capitals and a boarded door with decorative ironwork. The west wall has a 3-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould, with angle buttresses with offsets.

The nave's west wall contains a 4-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould.

The north-west tower features angle and intermediate buttresses with offsets, a stair turret to the north-east angle, and two lancet windows to the north wall and four lancet windows to the west wall. The bell-chamber has pairs of 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery and stone louvres to each face. A ball-flower frieze with gargoyles runs below a parapet with moulded coping. The broach spire has 2-light openings in gabled dormers to each face.

Interior

The chancel has single pointed moulded arches to the north and south aisles, a small pointed doorway to the north, and a doorway with a 4-centred arch head to the south. The chancel arch is pointed with a moulded head on carved corbels.

The sanctuary contains a carved, painted and gilded reredos by Scott dating from 1881, a piscina, and three sedilia to the south. Brass and oak communion rails and oak choir stalls are present. An organ is located in the north chancel aisle, with a communion table topped by a carved and gilded timber reredos in the south chancel aisle.

The nave has an arcade of pointed arches on round and octagonal piers with carved capitals. An octagonal stone pulpit stands to the north-west of the chancel arch, decorated with quatrefoil ornament and openwork panels to its sides. The font at the west end of the north nave aisle has a quatrefoil plan on four grouped marble piers with an elaborate cusped and pinnacled brass cover. Softwood pews furnish the nave.

The nave roof comprises an 8-bay structure with king-post trusses, lit by two dormers to each side.