Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, SK15 2JS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068022
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address:
- Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, SK15 2JS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068022
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, SK15 2JS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, SK15 2JS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 96405 98431
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 25 November 2024 to Update Details and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 99 NE
4/173
STALYBRIDGE
TRINITY STREET (east side)
Holy Trinity Church
G.V.
II
Holy Trinity Church was constructed between 1851-1852 on land formerly part of the Castle Hall estate. The area was laid out in a grid pattern and the church was the first of a number of important civic buildings built here in the mid-late C19. The church was designed by Edwin Hugh Shellard (1815-1885), a Manchester based architect known for his ecclesiastical work in the mid-C19. Shellard was prolific across Greater Manchester and the north west of England, particularly gaining contracts for 'Commissioner's Churches' through the Church Building Commission. Although Holy Trinity does not appear on the list of Commissioner's Churches, it was built at the height of the drive by the Church of England to serve growing urban populations by building more places of worship in industrial towns. A major reordering and redecoration was undertaken in the 1990s replacing pews and renewing heating and electrical installations.
Holy Trinity Church is constructed of snecked stone with a slate roof. It has a projecting plinth and consists of a nave, chancel, aisles, clerestory, west tower and north porch. The parapet is set above a moulded band with gargoyles and moulded copings. The clerestory is of six-bays and the aisles have weathered buttresses which are diagonal at the corners. The three light aisle windows and two-light clerestory windows have rectilinear tracery and hoodmoulds, and the east window has five lights. The gable parapets are raked with cross finials. The three-stage tower has angled buttresses, a weathered plinth, a west door with crocketed ogee hoodmould, a three-light transomed west window, clock apertures in the second stage, two two-light belfry openings in the third stage with crocketed ogee hoodmoulds and is castellated. Octagonal columns with moulded capitals support the nave arcade and there is a West gallery. The interior has arch-braced roof trusses.
Listing NGR: SJ9640598431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212637
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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