Holy Trinity Church was a now demolished church in the village of

Thorpe Thewles Thorpe Thewles is a village which had history dating back to the 12th century. The village shares a parish with Grindon, County Durham, Grindon and is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Northern England. It lies near the A177 road ...

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, England. It was built in 1848–49 to replace an isolated church on a different site which had been dedicated to

Thomas à Becket Thomas Becket (), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then as Archbishop of Canterbury fr ...

. The Thomas à Becket church is now in ruins and is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade I

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. It is also a

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. Holy Trinity Church was designed by the

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architects

Sharpe and Paley Sharpe, Paley and Austin are the surnames of architects who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, between 1835 and 1946, working either alone or in partnership. The full names of the principals in their practice, which went under variou ...

at an estimated cost of £600, and could seat 175 people. It measured by but by the 1880s it was suffering from decay and damp, and was demolished. It was replaced on the same site in 1886–87 by the present church, dedicated to St James. This church is a Grade II

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Ground plan of the church
Churches completed in 1849 19th-century Church of England church buildings Sharpe and Paley buildings Former churches in County Durham Grade II listed buildings in County Durham 1849 establishments in England English churches dedicated to St Thomas Becket {{England-church-stub

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