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Holy Trinity Church, Bradford, was an
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located in Leeds Road,
Bradford Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdo ...
,
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, England. It was built in 1864–65 to a design by the
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architect E. G. Paley at an estimated cost of £3,565 (equivalent to £ in ). The church was constructed in stone, its architectural style being Decorated. It had north and south five-
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s, and a southeast tower. In 1871 a
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was added, the
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arch was rebuilt, and the tower was underpinned because of subsidence, the architects being
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. The church was demolished in 1966, and the parish merged with that of St Clement's.War memorial
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See also

* List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley *
List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin Paley and Austin was the title of a practice of architects in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, in the 19th century. The practice had been founded in 1836 by Edmund Sharpe. The architects during the period covered by t ...
* St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church, a church in the US with a stained glass window containing shards of glass collected from this church when it was damaged in World War II.


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