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Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church
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Location Rothwell, West Yorkshire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Anglo-Catholic
History
Status Parish Church
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II listed building
Architect(s) C. R. Chorley
Completed 1873
Specifications
Materials Sandstone ashlar with slate roof
Administration
Parish Rothwell
Archdeaconry Leeds
Diocese Leeds
Province York

The Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

History

There has been a church on this site since 1150. The current church was largely rebuilt to a design by C.R. Chorley and was completed in 1873.

Architectural style

Exterior

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The church lychgate dating from 1889.

Although largely rebuilt in 1873 the church has some late medieval fabric. It is built of Sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. The church has a west tower built in three stages with diagonal buttresses, a clockface on its southside and belfry windows of two cusped lights. The church has a lychgate dating from 1889.

Interior

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Interior

The arcades have double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns. The nave ceiling is of late-medieval origin with moulded beams and carved bosses and a font that dates from 1662.

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