Holy Trinity Church, Lenton is a

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in the

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Diocese of Southwell, located in

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. The church is

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by the

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as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

History

Holy Trinity was designed by the architect

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and opened in 1842. It was consecrated on 6 October 1842 by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln (the Right Reverend John Jackson D.D.). The architectural style is early English. Built in stone with a high pitched roof, it consists of a nave with clerestory, aisles to north and south, a chancel, vestry, organ-chamber, and a west end pinnacled tower. The chancel screen was designed by John Rigby Poyser and installed in 1935. Its dimensions are 123 feet long and 57 feet wide. When opened it had seating for 660 people. Holy Trinity now forms part of the benefice of Lenton, alongside

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Features

Holy Trinity is famous for its twelfth century font which was originally built for

Lenton Priory Lenton Priory was a Cluniac monastic house in Nottinghamshire, founded by William Peverel ''circa 1102-8''. The priory was granted a large endowment of property in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire by its founder, which became the cause of violent d ...

and was given to the church by Severus William Lynam Stretton in 1842.

Memorials

Albert Ball Albert Ball, (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was a British fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer b ...

on the north wall. Captain in the Royal Flying Corps who was awarded the

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List of incumbents

*George Brown MA 1840 - 1886 *Percy Edward Smith MA 1886 - 1893 *Allan Hunter Watts 1893 - 1917 (father of suffragette activist Helen Kirkpatrick Watts) *Felix Asher BD 1917 - 1922 *W. Aden Wright 1922 - 1928 *Rainald J.R. Skipper, CF, 1929 - 1954 (died in the pulpit of Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square) *George Hill, May-Nov 1956 (killed in a bicycle accident) *R. P. Neil MA, 1957 - 1962 *L. L. Abbott, 1963 - 1967 *R. G. Dunford, 1967 - 1980 *David Williams MA, 1981 - 1987 *Lloyd Scott, 1989 - 2003 *W, Robert Lovatt MA, 1994 - 2004 *Martin Kirkbride, 2005 - 2011 *Megan Smith, 2012 - 2021 *Garreth Frank, 2022 -

Clock and bells

An eight-day church clock was built in 1844 by Samuel Holland of Barker Gate, Nottingham. It was 3 ft 4in wide and 3 ft 6in high, with a dead beat escapement. This was replaced in 1950 with a new electric clock by G. & F. Cope. The tower has a set of eight bells. The church was originally only provided with one bell, but five more were added in 1856. In 1902, two more bells were added, given by the brothers Frederick Ball and Albert Ball. The latter was the father of the First World War ace

Organ

The organ was built by Messrs. Bevington and Sons, and was opened on 22 October 1846, and was moved and enlarged by Charles Lloyd in 1870. A new organ by

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replaced this and was opened on 31 May 1906 at evensong with a recital by F.E. Hollingshead, organist of St Andrew's Church, Bath.

Organists

*Mrs. Cooper 1846 - * Francis Marshall Ward 1865 - 1867 *Charles Rogers 1867 - ???? (formerly organist of

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) *Fred Harvey 1883 - 1919 *Vernon Sydney Read 1919 – 1922 (afterwards organist of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham) *Charles Pickard 1924 - 1951 (Formerly organist of Hucknall Parish Church. Afterwards organist St. Andrew's Church, Nottingham) *W. Harry Bland 1951 - 1982 ?

References

Sources

*''The Buildings of England, Nottinghamshire''.

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External links

See Holy Trinity Church on Google Street View
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lenton, Holy Trinity Churches in Nottingham Grade II* listed churches in Nottinghamshire Churches completed in 1842 19th-century Church of England church buildings Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire