Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square

Holy Trinity Church, Nottingham was a Church of England church in Nottingham from 1841 to 1958.

History

It was designed by the architect Henry Isaac Stevens.

It was a church in the early English style, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was consecrated on 13 October 1841 by John Kaye the Bishop of Lincoln;^[1] its external dimensions were 129 feet by 64, and it had a square tower, on which was an octagonal lantern 24 feet high, surmounted with a spire rising 29 feet. It was built at a cost of £10,000 (£793,400 in 2015) ^[2]. The living was in the gift of Trustees; and had a net income of £400.^[3]

It was built on land released under the 1839 enclosure of Burton Leys^[4] and out of the parish of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham.

The spire was the tallest in Nottingham. Unfortunately, the spire was declared unsafe and removed sometime prior to the closure of the church.

In 1859, the parishioners built Trinity Free Church as a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity. This later became independent as St. Stephen's Church, Bunker's Hill.

In 1954, Canon R.J.R. Skipper of Holy Trinity Church, Lenton, died in the pulpit whilst preaching.

Incumbents

• Thomas Hart Francis Penrose Davies 1841 - 1851
• Thomas Mosse MacDonald 1851 - 1871
• James Allan Smith 1871 - 1885
• William Russell Blackett 1885 - 1892
• Percy Holbrook 1892 - 1934
• Albert Tom Cosford 1934 - 1936
• Robert Henry Makepeace 1936 - 1942
• Harry Holden 1942 - ????

Organists

• W.T. Cockrem 1871^[5] - ????

Closure and demolition

The church was demolished in 1958 and the Trinity Square site used for a multi-storey car park until 2006. This has now been redeveloped as retail premises.

The church name was preserved with a new church of 1958 in Clifton, Nottingham.

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