Holy Trinity, Thorpe Hesley
Holy Trinity, Thorpe Hesley
Holy Trinity is a Grade II Commissioners' church on Sough Hall Avenue, Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham, in the Diocese of Sheffield.
- Location
- Thorpe Hesley, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Thorpe Hesley
- Address
- Sough Hall Avenue, Thorpe Hesley, Yorkshire, S61 2QJ
- Postcode
- S61 2QJ
- Built
- 1837–39
- Architect
- J P Pritchett the elder
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Thorpe Hesley
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival (Early English)
- Materials
- Thinly coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof
- Grid reference
- SK 378 960
- Opening hours
- The church is open for Sunday worship at 10am and during the Toddlers group on Wednesdays from 9.30am to 11am. Outside of these times, the church is closed to visitors.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1837 by J. P. Pritchett the elder, with later additions. The fabric is thinly coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The plan is a five-bay nave and chancel in one, a three-stage west tower, an east projection and a later vestry at the northeast. Windows are lancets in the Early English manner. The tower has a pointed west door, a lancet west window flanked by piers rising as pinnacles, louvred belfry openings and a slender octagonal spire.
The interior has a west gallery and roof trusses subdivided into lancet panels. A dedicated Pritchett site states that the church was built between 1837 and 1839 on land belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, and that the short chancel reflects contemporary liturgical needs. A war memorial west of the church is listed separately at Grade II.