Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built between 1831 and 1833, with the chancel added around 1860, designed by Crowther. It is constructed of rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings, with the chancel built of rock-faced sandstone and ashlar dressings. The church comprises a nave with a west tower, and a chancel with a north organ loft.

The six-bay nave features a gabled south porch and a small gabled vestry opposite. The building has wide eaves and verges, with decorative gutter brackets. Alternate weathered buttresses are punctuated by lancet windows with continuous hoodmoulds. Diagonal buttresses add to the architectural detail. The porch has a pointed arch. The tower has chamfered angles to the bell stage, with louvred pointed bell openings featuring hoodmoulds, a cornice, and an ashlar parapet with raised angles. The west face displays a window with a four-centred head and label mould, above which is a triangular-headed window, and a clock face below the bell opening. The vestry has an entrance on its east side and a window on its north side. The chancel has a weathered base and sill course, and a steep roof with a coped gable and cross. The east end has three stepped lancets with hoodmoulds, while the south side has a trefoil-headed entrance and three lancets, and the north side has a lancet to the east of the gabled organ loft, accompanied by a weathered buttress and coped gable.

The interior features a nave with a scissor truss roof incorporating collars and kingposts. Wall paintings by J. Clarke, created between 1905 and 1910, are painted on canvas. Memorials to Rev W. Carus Wilson (1859) and W.W. Carus Wilson (1851) are present, both featuring gothic detailing. Windows contain plain irregular glass in abstract patterns, but the west windows feature glass by H. Holiday from 1894 to 1897. The tower arch leads to a baptistry, which contains an octagonal font supported by clustered shafts. Other features include wall tablets with gothic detail and a window by Shrigley and Hunt. The Hanoverian arms are in relief above the entrance. The chancel arch includes corbelled trefoil shafts, and an arch to the left reveals a screen with open tracery and an iron grille. The chancel has a collar rafter roof. Further fitting include a reredos with blind tracery and a relief panel, a communion rail with wrought iron diaper work, a timber pulpit, a lectern, and stalls with pierced tracery panels, most likely by Paley and Austin. Additional wall paintings and stained glass are the work of H. Holiday, dating from 1894 to 1897. The church was founded by Rev William Carus Wilson, who also established the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte Bronte, and who is believed to be the inspiration for a character in Jane Eyre.