Church of the Holy Trinity

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SK 18 NW 3/53

PARISH OF EDALE GRINDSBROOK MAIN STREET (West Side) Church of the Holy Trinity

GV II

Church. 1885-6, tower completed 1890, by William Dawes of Manchester. Coursed squared rock-faced gritstone with gritstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs with stone coped gables. Nave with south porch, chancel, south vestry and north east tower with short stone broach spire. Early English style with pairs and triplets of lancets to the nave and cusped lancets to the chancel. East window of three stepped lancets within a super-arch, west window of two two-light windows with quatrefoils above and a cinquefoil in a circle above.

Tower of three stages with diagonal buttresses, the north east buttress incorporating a polygonal stair turret. Paired lancet bell-openings. Spire with one tier of lucarnes with cross finials. Base of north east buttress inscribed with date 1885. Bellcote on the eastern gable of the nave. Paired chimneystack rising from the eaves at the south east corner of the nave.

Plain interior with substantial timber roofs.

Stained glass in the north easternmost window of the nave, 1905 by Sir Ninian Comper. Above the south door, inside, are two benefaction boards dated 1831, from the old church.

Listing NGR: SK1232285769