Description

SE 32 NW ROTHWELL CHUCH STREET LS26 (north side), Rothwell

5/79 Church of the Holy Trinity 5th June 1964

GV II

Parish church, Largely restored or rebuilt 1873 by C. R, Chorley (Pevsner) but with some late medieval fabric, Sandstone ashlar, slate roofs (except porch), West tower, nave with north and south aisles, chancel. Perpendicular style. Three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses has 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of hollow chamfer, hoodmould (rendered) and studded double doors; above this a C19 recessed 3-light window with tracery; belfry windows of 2 cusped lights; cornice on corbel table and embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles; clockface an south side. Five-bay nave has square-headed recessed clerestory windows of 2 cusped lights each and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Four-bay, south aisle has gabled porch to 2nd bay protecting a late-medieval moulded inner doorway with massive studded double-layer oak door; and large 2-centred arched 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. Four-bay north aisle, under pitched roof, has similar 3-light windows, the middle pair lacking tracery. Both aisles have buttresses and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles, Two-bay chancel has large east window if 5 cusped lights with Perpendicular tracery.

Interior: C19 arcades of double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns; chancel arch with clustered shafts; tower arch with 3 orders of chamfer; late medieval coffered nave ceiling of massive moulded beams with carved bosses; font dated 1662: octagonal bowl on fluted pedestal, the panels lettered in relief:- R:W N:W C:R R:W R:B R:S R:H I:I Vicarus 1662 T:R Wrothwell Restored 17 octagonal spire-shaped font cover, with carved openwork panels; at west end of north aisle a marble monument with effigies, to Mary Anne Faviel, 1942 by" J. Towne, Sculpt. GUYS HOSPITAL, London".

Listing NGR: SE3431628309

External Links

• Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, West Yorkshire at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q24705040

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)