The Church of the Holy Trinity is a

Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

church, incorporating Saxon and medieval elements, located in the town of

Wolverton Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located at the northern edge of Milton Keynes, beside the West Coast Main Line, the Grand Union Canal and the river Great Ouse. It is the administrative seat of Wolverton and Gre ...

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

, England. The modern church was rebuilt between 1809 and 1815.

History

The Church of the Holy Trinity is the original parish church of the Saxon settlement of Wolverton and overlooks the valley of the Ouse river, near the site of the Norman

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. In the early 19th century the old medieval building was replaced by a new church, begun in 1809 and completed in 1815. The new church incorporates the 14th-century central tower of the old church, but this was re-cased in new masonry.Official history
Retrieved 8 March 2019 The new stonework used Warwickshire sandstone, brought in from

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, and was brought to the site by barge on the recently opened

Grand Junction Canal The Grand Junction Canal is a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches. The mainline was built between 1793 and 1805, to improve the route from the Midlands to London, by-p ...

. Next door to the church is a house built in 1729, which later became the vicarage; the front door has stonework from the nearby, demolished manor house of the 16th century, including the de Longueville family coat of arms, and pieces from the earlier church building. The church was Grade II* listed on 12 June 1953.

Holy Trinity today

The rector is The Revd Gill Barrow-Jones.Official site

Churchyard

Among those buried in the churchyard are the stonemason George Wills, grandfather of the chemist George S. V. Wills.

Sources

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External links

Official site
Retrieved 8 March 2019
Official history of Holy Trinity Wolverton
Retrieved 8 March 2019 Grade II* listed churches in Buckinghamshire Church of England church buildings in Buckinghamshire History of Buckinghamshire