Holy Trinity Church, Ulverston

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]

Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church
Location in South Lakeland
Holy Trinity Church
Location in Cumbria
OS grid referenceSD 285 781
LocationNew Church Lane, Ulverston, Cumbria
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
History
StatusParish church
Architecture
Functional statusRedundant
Heritage designationGrade II
Designated20 June 1972
Architect(s)Anthony Salvin
Paley and Austin
Architectural typeChurch
StyleGothic Revival
Groundbreaking1829
Completed1832
Specifications
MaterialsLimestone with sandstone dressings
Slate roofs

History

Holy Trinity was built between 1829 and 1832, and was designed by Anthony Salvin.[3] A grant of £3,423 (equivalent to £320,000 as of 2019)[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. Historic England, "Church of Holy Trinity, Ulverston (1270210)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 2 February 2012
  2. 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. 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 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.
  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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