Trinity Congregational Church and attached Sunday School

The Trinity Congregational Church and attached Sunday School date from the 18th century, with later additions. The church is constructed of coursed rubble, occasionally snecked, with pale ashlar and Bodmer’s patent brick dressings. The ashlar at the entrance has been painted, while the eastern bay of the nave and the Sunday School are rendered. The church has a Welsh slate roof, and the Sunday School has tiled roofing, both with overhanging eaves supported by brackets and boarded soffits.

The church plan comprises six bays, with the eastern end contemporary with the attached gabled Sunday School’s cross wing and porch. The building is set into a hillside, with the western end facing downhill. This end features antae that continue diagonally to the apex, a tripartite doorway with panelled doors and stepped round-headed arches with plain overlights; a painted inscription is set above. At gallery level, a matching tripartite window has small pane glazing to the centre and roundels within the heads to the sides, and a keyed oculus sits at the apex. Decorative quoins and projecting gable courses emphasize the corners. This two-dimensional quality is replicated on the sides, where each bay features a round arch rising to eaves height, incorporating decorative voussoirs and quoins. Recessed within each arch are windows to each level: round-headed with voussoirs and quoins to the gallery level, square-headed with lintels and quoins to the ground floor, all with coved stone sills and metal-framed single pane casements. A plinth runs along the base. A later bay on the uphill side has a wooden Gothic-style window.

The Sunday School’s cross wing features nosed steps leading to a central gabled porch with a pointed arched doorway, double doors, and a hoodmould. Stepped windows are positioned on each side, mirroring a similar window with a hoodmould in the eastern nave bay. A relief inscription panel displaying the name and date, along with numerous dedication stones, are inset into the walls.

Inside the church, raked galleries extend to four sides, supported by slender cast iron columns with painted panelled fronts and zigzag decoration at the base. The organ gallery is recessed within a wide moulded arch, featuring an inscription and decorative motifs. The decorative cast iron gallery front incorporates an Art Nouveau motif. A large organ occupies the gallery at first floor level. Below the gallery is the pulpit, approached by a double flight of steps with decorative balusters and finials, and an altar table. A door with coloured margin glazing is located to the rear left. The ground floor incorporates boarded walls and angled pews. A post-war ceiling features metal trusses and ventilators, while the organ loft is boarded. Half-glazed double doors lead to a vestibule with a terrazzo floor, alongside the two gallery staircases. The Sunday School contains half-glazed schoolrooms numbered 1 to 10, all panelled, a central hall with a stage, a boarded dado, and a panelled ceiling; the rear windows have been renewed.