Holy Trinity, Bickerstaffe
Holy Trinity, Bickerstaffe
Holy Trinity is a Grade II parish church on Church Road, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, in the Diocese of Liverpool.
- Location
- Bickerstaffe, Lancashire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lancashire
- City / town
- Bickerstaffe
- Address
- Church Road, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, L39 0EB
- Postcode
- L39 0EB
- Built
- 1843; enlarged 1860
- Architect
- Sydney Smirke
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Liverpool
- Parish
- Bickerstaffe Holy Trinity
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SD 445 042
- Opening hours
- The church is open on Sunday mornings from 10am to 12.30pm. You can also arrange a visit by contacting us.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1843 by Sydney Smirke, enlarged in 1860. It is sandstone ashlar with slate roofs and comprises a west tower with spire, nave, lower chancel, north aisle under a pitched roof, and north vestry. The tower has angle buttresses, paired lancet bell openings, and corner pinnacles with flying buttresses to the stone spire. The west doorway is moulded with angle shafts and a tympanum carved with three angels. The north aisle, added in 1860, has a three-light west window with Geometric tracery.
Inside, a four-bay north arcade has pointed arches on round piers. A west gallery with a timber front stands on timber posts. The king-post roof has curved braces to raised tie-beams. Around the apse is a blind arcade of pointed arches. The octagonal font is decorated with interlaced round arches, and the apse windows hold glass of the late 1860s showing scenes from the life of Christ.