Holy Trinity, Minsterley
Holy Trinity, Minsterley
Holy Trinity, Minsterley, is a Grade II* Baroque parish church of 1688–89 by William Taylor of London, built at the expense of Thomas, Viscount Weymouth, as a chapel of Westbury.
- Location
- Minsterley, Shropshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Shropshire
- City / town
- Minsterley
- Address
- Leigh Road, Minsterley, Shropshire, SY5 0AA
- Postcode
- SY5 0AA
- Built
- 1688–89
- Architect
- William Taylor of London
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Hereford
- Parish
- Minsterley
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Baroque
- Materials
- Red brick with yellow/grey sandstone dressings, plain tile roof
- Grid reference
- SJ 373 050
- Opening hours
- Normally open 9am to 5.30pm.
- Access
- Level access throughout. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records an unusual composition of red brick with sandstone dressings and a steep tiled roof: a six-bay nave and chancel in one, a western bay with wooden bellcote, and a south porch with lugged architrave and segmental pediment. Classical and Baroque detail, raking brick buttresses without offsets, and the square shingled bellcote with pedimented cap set it apart from typical Shropshire parish churches.
The interior retains a fine hexagonal wooden pulpit with tester, an octagonal painted stone font with acanthus stem, and seven maidens’ garlands at the west end (dated 1736 to 1794), made for the funerals of young girls. The interior was altered in 1865 and reseated in 1870. The church is in the Diocese of Hereford, parish of Minsterley, in the Stiperstones Group. Listed Grade II* on 13 June 1958 (NHLE 1055228); listing NGR SJ3739705059. It appears on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.