Vestry And Halls, Including Session House, Trinity Church, Brougham Place

Church dated 1843; remodelled and extended 1872. Roughly T-plan, plain, gable-fronted church with piend-roofed transepts and some Gothic detailing. Roughly coursed whinstone with painted, droved sandstone ashlar dressings; tabbed margins and raised cills to N, S and E elevations of church; squared yellow sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings and raised cills elsewhere. Long-and-short quoins. Pointed-arched windows in chamfered margins to W and E elevations; bipartite, stone-mullioned windows to transepts; predominantly regularly placed rectangular windows with central vertical glazing bars elsewhere.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Gabled W elevation with central timber-panelled door and multi-pane rectangular fanlight in chamfered, corniced architrave with frieze dated 1843; Y-traceried, transomed window above; flanking lancet windows; hoodmoulded margins; pinnacled gable. 4-bay E elevation with two Y-traceried windows to centre and small rectangular windows to left and right. S elevation with secondary door at outer left and single-storey, gabled session house/vestry wing with gabled porch in re-entrant angle.

Predominantly lightly stained glass in fixed, rectangular-paned, leaded lights; stained-glass windows in E elevation; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to session house. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped, kneelered skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: T-plan layout with panel-fronted sloping galleries over three sides supported on slender, octagonal-section cast-iron columns. Tongue and groove panelling to dado height; plaster walls above; plain pine pews. Timber side stair to bow-fronted timber pulpit with blind Gothic arcading flanked by linenfold panels; early-20th-century timber Binns organ behind. Gothic-style timber Communion table, chair and font. Timber-panelled doors. Plain timber-boarded floors. Decorative cornices; flat ceiling with 3 large, circular, decorative plasterwork vents. Stone stair to galleries, with timber balustrade. Lincrusta frieze in vestry.

HALLS: Dated 1896; W addition, late 20th century. Gabled block attached to SE corner of church on steeply sloping site. Squared yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Single-storey S (Brougham Place) elevation with 2-leaf timber-boarded door and 2-pane fanlight in roll-moulded, hoodmoulded, segmental-arched surround to left, and secondary timber-boarded door to outer right. 2 storeys elsewhere. Predominantly bipartite stone-mullioned windows. Grey slate roof; ashlar-coped skews; gablehead stack with string course. INTERIOR: Timber-panelled doors throughout. Timber dado panelling. Corridor with services off at ground floor. Main hall at 1st floor with queen-strut roof with chamfered detailing and ornamental vents to timber-panelled flat central ceiling.