Holy Trinity Church, Ulverston

Holy Trinity Church, Ulverston
Holy Trinity Church, Ulverston

Location in Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°11′38″N 3°05′52″W / 54.1938°N 3.0978°W
OS grid reference SD 285 781
Location New Church Lane, Ulverston, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Redundant
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 20 June 1972
Architect(s) Anthony Salvin
Paley and Austin
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1829
Completed 1832
Specifications
Materials Limestone with sandstone dressings
Slate roofs

Holy Trinity Church is a redundant Anglican parish church in New Church Lane, Ulverston, Cumbria, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1] It is a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.[2]

History

Holy Trinity was built between 1829 and 1832, and was designed by Anthony Salvin.[3] A grant of £3,423 (£280,000 as of 2015)[4] was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission,[2] the total cost of construction being £4,978.[3] The interior of the church was re-ordered, and the chancel was added, by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin in 1880.[3][5] The church was declared redundant on 1 October 1976, converted for use as a sports hall the following year, and further converted, this time for residential use, in 1996.[6]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in limestone rubble with sandstone dressings, and has slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave, north and south aisles, a chancel at a lower level, and a northwest tower with a spire. The tower has angle buttresses, pairs of lancet bell openings over which is a band of trefoils, and pinnacles at the corners. The aisle bays are separated by buttresses. The walls contain lancet windows, with doorways in the western bay on the south side, and in the fourth bay from the west on the north side. At the west end of the church is a doorway, above which is a triple stepped lancet window. There is another triple stepped lancet at the east end of the chancel, and windows with trefoil heads in its north and south walls.[1]

Interior

Inside the church the five-bay arcades are carried on octagonal piers. In the chancel is a double sedilia and a piscina. The reredos is in marble and alabaster.[1] In the north aisle are two windows containing stained glass, one by Morris, and the other, dating from about 1905, by Kempe.[7] When the church was examined for listing in the mid-1990s, it was disused, its interior had been subdivided, and false ceilings had been inserted.[1] The original three-manual organ had been built by Bellamy of Manchester.[8] It was updated in 1853 by Jardine and company, also of Manchester,[9] and rebuilt in 1958 by Rushworth and Dreaper.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Historic England. "Church of Holy Trinity, Ulverston (1270210)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 336, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 649, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
  4. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2014), "What Were the British Earnings and Prices Then? (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  5. ↑ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 232, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  6. ↑ Diocese of Carlistle: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 3, retrieved 2 February 2012
  7. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) [1967], Cumberland and Westmorland, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 251, ISBN 0-300-09590-2
  8. ↑ Lancashire (Cumbria), Ulverston, Holy Trinity (N10764), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 2 February 2012
  9. ↑ Lancashire (Cumbria), Ulverston, Holy Trinity (N10766), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 2 February 2012
  10. ↑ Lancashire (Cumbria), Ulverston, Holy Trinity (N10765), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 2 February 2012

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