Holy Trinity Church, Bury

Holy Trinity Church is in Spring Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church in the diocese of Manchester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

Holy Trinity Church, Bury
Holy Trinity Church, Bury
Holy Trinity Church, Bury Location in Greater Manchester
OS grid reference	SD 810,103
Location	Bury, Greater Manchester
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Holy Trinity, Bury
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Redundant
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	23 October 2004
Architect(s)	E. G. Paley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1863
Construction cost	£5,500
Closed	30 November 2010
Specifications
Capacity	627
Materials	Coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings Welsh slate roofs
Administration
Parish	Roch Valley
Deanery	Bury
Archdeaconry	Bolton
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York

History

The church was built between 1863 and 1865 at a cost of about £5,500 (equivalent to £530,000 in 2019).[3] It was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. The original plan included a south aisle and a north tower with a spire, but these were never built. The site was given by the 14th Earl of Derby, who also donated £1,000. As built, the church provided seating for 627 people.[4] The church was extended in about 1920.[2] Edward Hordern, the father of the British actor Michael Hordern, was a rector at the church, likely around the turn of the 20th century.[5] On 30 November 2010 the church was declared redundant,[6] and its parish was merged with those of St Peter, Bury, and St Thomas, Bury, forming the new parish of Roch Valley.[1] As of 2011, it was planned to sell it for use as a children's nursery and an early learning centre.

Architecture

Holy Trinity Church is constructed in coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. It has Welsh slate roofs. The architectural style is Early English. Its plan consists of a nave, a north aisle with a porch, a chancel with a Lady chapel and a vestry to the north.[2] As the arcade runs down the centre of the church,[2] it is described in the Buildings of England series as a "double-naved church", with "the chancel attached to the south nave".[7] The windows at the east and west ends contain "heavy plate tracery".[7] The arcade has five bays and is carried on round piers.[7] Between the aisle and the Lady chapel is a three-bay arcade.[2] In the Lady chapel is a brightly painted reredos, added in 1987 as a First World War memorial.[7]

See also

• Listed buildings in Bury
• List of churches in Greater Manchester
• List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley

References

1. "A Church Near You". achurchnearyou.com. The Archbishop's Council. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
2. Historic England, "Holy Trinity Church, Bury (1391180)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 7 June 2012
3. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
4. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 220, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
5. Hordern, Michael (1993), A World Elsewhere, London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, pp. 2–3, ISBN 978-1-85479-188-7
6. Diocese of Manchester: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2010, p. 3, retrieved 7 June 2012
7. Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 178, ISBN 0-300-10583-5