Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1962. A Victorian Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- high-oriel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1962
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church dating from the early 19th century, built in a simple Gothic style. It has a cruciform layout, with a south tower located east of the transepts. The church is primarily of brick construction, with a slate roof behind stone coped gables on the nave, but with brick copings on the transepts and chancel. The nave has sawtooth eaves. Windows generally feature brick mullions with 4-centred lights. The main entrance on the west front has a 4-centred arched head with double studded doors, above which is a 3-light window. The nave has 3-light windows on either side of the transepts, although some are obscured by the tower and vestry. Both transepts contain 3-light north and south windows with 4-centred heads and wooden tracery, along with two single windows in the side walls, again with some obscured by the tower. A gabled porch with a narrow boarded door is set into the west wall of the north transept. The small chancel has pointed north and south windows and a tall 3-light east window. A lean-to vestry attached to the south wall of the nave has a pointed door and a 2-light window.
The four-stage tower is set back above the second stage and has an entrance on the south side at the second stage, accessed by ladder to a boarded door. The third stage has an east window below blind roundels on each face, incorporating a clock (by Joyce of Whitchurch) on the west face. The bell stage has openings with louvres, below a dentil cornice and a steep, swept pyramidal roof.
The main west doorway opens into a vestibule beneath a gallery, which has double doors to the nave under a small-pane overlight with etched and marginal coloured glazing. The nave has a 5-bay king-post roof with raking struts, supported on cast-iron brackets. The chancel and transepts are accessed via 4-centred arches from the nave. A raked west gallery has a frontal with blind pointed arches. A simple dog-leg gallery stair in the nave has turned newels and plain balusters on the upper flight. Within the two-bay transepts, a central truss has a tie beam supporting an arched brace. A Tudor-headed boarded door in the south transept leads to a vestry at the base of the tower. The chancel incorporates a 20th-century panelled reredos.
The octagonal font, dating from 1864, is in Perpendicular style, featuring quatrefoils around the bowl. The polygonal freestone pulpit and reading desk are designed as a pair; the pulpit has cusped arches and the reading desk incorporates a central quatrefoil. Pews in the nave and choir stalls are dated 1938, as indicated by a brass plaque on the nave wall. The transepts feature box pews, believed to have been brought from Gresford.
The east window depicts the Parable of the Sower and is dated 1963. North and south chancel windows contain foliage pattern glass influenced by the style of William Morris and dating to the late 19th or early 20th century, commemorating the Wardle family. A brass plaque on the north wall commemorates James Roberts (died 1905) by Wippell & Co, and two simple brass plaques on the south wall commemorate John Healey (died 1906) and three of his descendants (died 1902-89).
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