Holy Trinity, Horwich
Holy Trinity, Horwich
Holy Trinity is a Grade II Commissioners’ parish church on Church Street in Horwich, in the Diocese of Manchester and the Benefice of Horwich and Rivington.
- Location
- Horwich, Lancashire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lancashire
- City / town
- Horwich
- Address
- Church Street, Horwich, Lancashire, BL6 6AA
- Postcode
- BL6 6AA
- Built
- 1830–31; chancel 1903
- Consecrated
- 1831
- Architect
- Francis Octavius Bedford; chancel by R Knill Freeman
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Manchester
- Parish
- Horwich
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Stone with slate roof
- Grid reference
- SD 644 115
- Opening hours
- The church is open more than 100 days per year for a variety of regular events.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1830–31 by F. Bedford (Francis Octavius Bedford), with a chancel of 1903 by R. Knill Freeman, in stone with a slate roof. A four-bay nave continues as porches flanking a west tower; the chancel has a south organ loft. The nave has Y-tracery windows between buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. The tower has octagonal turrets becoming angle buttresses above roof level, a four-centred entrance, a four-face clock and Y-tracery louvred bell openings under an open-traceried embattled parapet. The Ridgway family’s kneeling-camel crest appears on the tower; the church was financed largely by that family.
The interior has chamfered diagonal piers supporting three galleries and plaster rib vaults. A free-standing monument to Joseph Ridgway (died 1842) by R. Westmacott shows a robed woman kneeling at a prie-dieu. Wikipedia notes that the present church was consecrated in 1831 and that a church on the site is recorded before 1552.