Description

SJ 97 NE RAINOW C.P. CHURCH LANE
(East Side)

3/112 Church of the Holy
Trinity.

II

Church: 1846 by Samuel Howard of Disley for the Church Building
Society. Coursed buff sandstone blocks with hammered dressings.
Welsh slate roof and stone ridge. Nave, short chancel and west tower.
4-bay nave divided by buttresses has 2-light lancet windows with
Y-tracery. Angle buttresses at the ends have heavy pinnacles.
Chancel has angle buttresses and 3-light tower flanked by low
staircase towers has rebated 4-centered arched doorcase with label
mould on carved head corbels. Y-traceried west window with clock and
3-light louvred bell openings above. Embattled top with pinnacles on
the corners.

Interior: Porch has pair of curving stones staircases to west
gallery. Broad nave has complete set of pine box pews. Chancel arch
on short engaged columns resting on stone corbels.

Listing NGR: SJ9511775980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Holy Trinity Church, Rainow at Wikipedia
• Holy Trinity Church, Rainow official website
• Wikidata Q5886574

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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