Holy Trinity Church is an

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church in

Coalbrookdale Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. It lies within the civil parish called the Gorge. This is where iron ore was first s ...

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, England. It is part of the United Benefice of Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge and Little Wenlock, in the Diocese of Hereford. The building is

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The parish of Coalbrookdale was formed in 1851, from Ironbridge and Little Dawley; the patronage of the new living was conferred on Abraham Darby IV, a member of the family of ironmasters at Coalbrookdale. He gave money for the building of a new church, and Adelaide Anna Darby (who married

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in 1852) gave the site. The church, designed by Reeves and Voysey, was built from 1851 to 1854, and it was consecrated by

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, Bishop of Hereford, on 25 July 1854.A P Baggs, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper and A J L Winchester, 'Madeley: Churches', in ''A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11, Telford'', ed. G C Baugh and C R Elrington (London, 1985), pp. 59-66
British History Online. Retrieved 8 May 2023."Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale"
Coalbrookdale, Little Wenlock and Ironbridge: Our Benefice. Retrieved 9 May 2023. The building, orientated south-east, is in Decorated

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style. It is built of local stone and has slate roofs; there is a large tower with an

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parapet and an octagonal corner stair turret. Inside is a

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, and a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

of eight bays with north and south aisles. In the south aisle there is a 16th-century Flemish stained glass window of The Last Supper, donated by Adelaide Anna Derby. The ring of eight bells, donated by Abraham Darby IV in 1852, was augmented in 1925 by two treble bells, in memory of Maurice Darby, killed in action in 1915. The

was refurbished in 1931 to designs of H. S. Goodhart-Rendel. The organ, with three manuals, is by

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. The churchyard contains the grave of Abraham Darby IV, and the grave of the parents of

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, the first person to swim the English Channel."Holy Trinity Church, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire

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. Retrieved 9 May 2023.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coalbrookdale, Holy Trinity Church Grade II* listed churches in Shropshire Church of England church buildings in Shropshire

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