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Church of the Holy Trinity

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0097 / 53°0'34"N

Longitude: -2.202 / 2°12'7"W

OS Eastings: 386545

OS Northings: 345835

OS Grid: SJ865458

Mapcode National: GBR MDH.XM

Mapcode Global: WHBCT.4MQ2

Plus Code: 9C5V2Q5X+V6

Entry Name: Church of the Holy Trinity

Listing Date: 19 April 1972

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1195800

English Heritage Legacy ID: 384418

ID on this website: 101195800

Location: Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4

County: City of Stoke-on-Trent

Electoral Ward/Division: Hartshill and Basford

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Stoke-on-Trent

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Hartshill

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


SJ 8645 SE
613-1/9/66

STOKE ON TRENT
HARTSHILL
Hartshill Road (north side)
Church of the Holy Trinity

19/04/72

GV
II*
Parish church. 1842. By George Gilbert Scott and Moffatt. Stone with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated style, with west tower and spire, nave with two aisles and clerestory, chancel.

Four-stage west tower with clasping buttresses terminating in pinnacles. West door with paired shafts to triple chamfered arch. Three-light window over, then an oculus. Paired bell chamber lights. Trefoiled frieze below parapet. Spire with two tiers of lucarnes. South porch with shafts to moulded arch repeated on inner doorway.

Nave of four bays divided by gableted buttresses, each with a two-light traceried window. Corbels support projecting parapet. Low clerestory above, with quatrefoil windows. Ornate chancel: shafts with foliate capitals and hoodmoulds to windows.

INTERIOR: high arcade of five bays with clusters shafts carrying rib vaulted ceiling. Encaustic floor tiles throughout and tiled dado with high glazed frieze and quatrefoil memorial tiles inset. Original pews with poppy-head bench ends. Deep-moulded chancel arch. Wood reredos with interlace in panelling and riddle posts, installed as war memorial. Painted panelled ceiling to chancel, and vaulted roof over apse. Early medieval style stained glass to chancel, with small lozenges containing scenes, and Mannerist style glass in south aisle of 1902-4.

The church was endowed by Herbert Minton.

Listing NGR: SJ8654545835

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