Holy Trinity Church is in Spring Street,
Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury ( ) is a market town on the River Irwell in Greater Manchester, England. Metropolitan Borough of Bury is administered from the town, which had an estimated population of 78,723 in 2015.
The town is within the historic county boundarie ...
, England. It is a
redundant Anglican
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parish church in the
diocese of Manchester.
The church is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
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 architect
E. G. Paley
Edward Graham Paley, usually known as E. G. Paley (3 September 1823 – 23 January 1895), was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th century. After leaving school in 1838, he went to La ...
. 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
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,]
Architecture
Holy Trinity Church is constructed in coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar
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dressings. It has Welsh slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
roofs. The architectural style is 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 runs down the centre of the church,][ it is described in the '' Buildings of England'' series as a "double-naved church", with "the chancel attached to the south nave".][ The arcade has five ]bays
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narr ...
and is carried on round piers Piers may refer to:
* Pier, a raised structure over a body of water
* Pier (architecture), an architectural support
* Piers (name), a given name and surname (including lists of people with the name)
* Piers baronets, two titles, in the baronetages ...
.[ Between the aisle and the Lady chapel is a three-bay arcade.][ In the Lady chapel is a brightly painted ]reredos
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The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for ex ...
, 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