Listed Building record MDR12229 - Holy Trinity Church, A57, Glossop

Holy Trinity Church, A57, Glossop, built in c1875. 'The foundation stone for the Holy Trinity Church at Dinting Vale was laid out in 1873, and it was consecrated in July 1875. It is a stone building in the 13th century Gothic style and has an octagonal spire, a nave, and north and south aisles. The designers and architects were Mills and Murgatroyd of Manchester. The stone used was partly from Lees Hall Quarry, Glossop and partly from Scaithwaite.' (1) 'The church appears on the 1st edition OS map, which was surveyed between 1875 and 1882 in Derbyshire. The church is therefore likely to date to 1873-5, rather than 1897 as the listing description states.' (2) From the National Heritage List for England: 'GLOSSOP SK0294 DINTING VALE 921-1/1/114 Holy Trinity Church 29/01/98 II Anglican church. 1897, extended 1931. By Mills and Murgatroyd, of Manchester, architects, for the Woodd-Sidebottom family, patrons. Coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, with a Welsh slate roof covering. STYLE: Early English Gothic Revival. EXTERIOR: aligned north-west to south-east, with entrance tower and spire at west corner, nave, liturgical north and south aisles, apsidal chancel, vestry and choir vestry. 3-stage tower with full-height angle buttresses with set-offs, terminating at gabled pinnacles at the angles of crenellated parapets. Tall octagonal spire with weather vane. 5-bay nave with steeply-pitched roof and coped gables. Clerestory with triple lancets to each bay. Aisles with lean-to roofs and coupled lancets to each bay, bay divisions delineated by stepped buttresses. INTERIOR: nave arcades of circular gritstone columns with simply-moulded capitals, support light-coloured brick walling with decorative red brick banding. Tall pinted and stepped chancel arch, with irregular gritstone quoining. Arched roof trusses carried on corbels at clerestory cill level. Chancel with roof trusses carried on corbels with carved figures. Pointed arched organ recess to right, with organ of 1882. Altar with wooden reredos, choir benches with fitted overthrows carrying candles and patterned floor tiling below altar. Nave with complete set of benches and partially glazed screen with church wardens' pew at west end. Font at west end of south aisle with circular Bath stone blowl set upon a shaft of red Cork marble. Listing NGR: SK0211894321.' (3)