Church of the Holy Trinity

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, PRESTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072536
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, PRESTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072536
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, PRESTON ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, PRESTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Hoghton
National Grid Reference:
SD 61495 25906

Details

HOGHTON PRESTON ROAD SD 62 NW 2/145 Church of the Holy Trinity - GV II

Church. 1881 rebuild of chapel founded 1823. Ashlar, 2-span slate roof. Nave with south aisle, west tower, chancel, mostly in Early English style. Moulded plinth, chamfered sill band; 5-bay nave with pilasters, the sill-band carried round them, and a large chamfered lancet in each bay except at the east end which has coupled lancets, hoodmoulds with returned ends run out to the pilasters; south aisle, under parallel roof, matches the nave but is 6 bays (overlapping one bay of the chancel) and has a shouldered priest door in the 5th bay, coupled lancets in the east gable and stepped triple lancets in the west gable; 2-bay chancel has traceried 2-light windows with hoodmoulds, and large 5-light east window; all gables have a small quatrefoil near the apex, and a carved stone cross. Tower at west end of nave, 3 stages, with angle-buttresses to the first two stages, and south-east stair turret, has arched north doorway with moulded surround, arched 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery in the head, an arched 2-light window and a circular clock face on the north and south sides, 3-light louvred belfry openings on all sides, with Perpendicular tracery in the heads, a dripband and embattled parapet. Interior: 4-bay aisle arcade of 2-centred arches chamfered in 2 orders, carried by quatrefoil columns with moulded caps; tower arch and organ house arch similar; deeply-moulded chancel arch; arch-braced wagon roof; in chancel 2 wall monuments to de Hoghton family (Charles, d.1895 and Vere, killed in action in France 1915, this in alabaster aedicule in Renaissance style).

Listing NGR: SD6149525906

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
184399
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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