Holy Trinity Church, Bury

Holy Trinity Church is in Spring Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant church, redundant Anglican parish church in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, diocese of Manchester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II Listed building#England and Wales, listed building.

History

The church was built between 1863 and 1865 at a cost of about £5,500 (equivalent to £ in ). It was designed by the Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. The original plan included a south aisle and a north tower with a spire, but these were never built. The site was given by the Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 14th Earl of Derby, who also donated £1,000. As built, the church provided seating for 627 people. The church was extended in about 1920. Edward Hordern, the father of the British actor Michael Hordern, was a rector at the church, likely around the turn of the 20th century. On 30 November 2010 the church was declared redundant church, redundant, and its parish was merged with those of St Peter, Bury, and St Thomas, Bury, forming the new parish of Roch Valley. As of 2011, it was planned to sell it for use as a children's nursery and an early learning centre.

Architecture

Holy Trinity Church is constructed in course (architecture), coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. It has Welsh slate roofs. The architectural style is Early English Gothic, Early English. Its plan consists of a nave, a north aisle with a porch, a chancel with a Lady chapel and a vestry to the north. As the arcade (architecture), arcade runs down the centre of the church, it is described in the ''Pevsner Architectural Guides, Buildings of England'' series as a "double-naved church", with "the chancel attached to the south nave". The windows at the east and west ends contain "heavy Tracery#Plate tracery, plate tracery". The arcade has five bay (architecture), bays and is carried on round pier (architecture), piers. Between the aisle and the Lady chapel is a three-bay arcade. In the Lady chapel is a brightly painted reredos, added in 1987 as a First World War memorial.

See also

*Listed buildings in Bury
*List of churches in Greater Manchester
*List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley

References

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Former Church of England church buildings
Former churches in Greater Manchester
Grade II listed churches in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury
Gothic Revival church buildings in Greater Manchester
Churches completed in 1863
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Church buildings by E. G. Paley