Holy Trinity Platt Church

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Holy Trinity Platt Church
Holy Trinity Church, Rusholme
Style
Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking1845
Completed1912
Specifications
Spire height170 feet (52 m)
MaterialsTerracotta, slate roof
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseManchester
ArchdeaconryManchester
DeaneryHulme
ParishHoly Trinity at Rusholme
Clergy
RectorRev Dr Paul Mathole
Laity
Reader(s)David Poole
Isabel Turley

Holy Trinity Platt Church (also known as Holy Trinity Church, Rusholme), is in

archdeaconry of Manchester, and the diocese of Manchester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[2] It is the second "pot church" designed by Edmund Sharpe, so-called because the main building material used in the construction of the church is terracotta.[3]

History

The tall spire of a church seen through parkland
Spire of Holy Trinity Platt Church

The church was built in 1845–46 to a design by the

consecrated before its building was complete. Worsley chose the dedication to the Holy Trinity to show his opposition to the Unitarians.[3]
The church cost £4,000 (equivalent to £410,000 in 2021)[4] (excluding the stained glass), and when built it could accommodate between 650 and 700 people.[5]

Sharpe's first "pot church" had been

Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, although the spire was not completed until 1850.[6] The terracotta for the spire proved to be inferior to Fletcher's material, and the spire had to be replaced in 1912. In 1966–67 a church hall was built and attached to the east wall of the church.[3]

Architecture

Exterior

Terracotta is used as the facing material for both the interior and the exterior of the church.

steeple, north and south aisles, a two-bay chancel, a west porch, and a south porch contained in the tower.[2][3] The tower is in three stages with angle buttresses and it has a south doorway. Its middle stage contains three-light windows with crocketted gables, above which are paired bell openings. The summit of the tower has an embattled parapet and corner pinnacles. On the tower is a tall octagonal spire supported by flying buttresses. The west window of the church has four lights, and the east window has five lights containing elaborate tracery.[2]

Interior

Internally, terracotta is used even for the piers of the arcades. The font is in stone and has an octagonal bowl. The stained glass in the chancel forms a memorial to the Worsley family and dates from 1849 to 1850. In the north aisle is a window dated 1871 with glass made by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake.[3]

See also

A sketch published in The Builder, 1845

References

  1. ^ Holy Trinity Platt, Manchester, Church of England, retrieved 18 June 2010
  2. ^ a b c d Historic England. "Church of Holy Trinity, Platt Lane, Manchester (1246948)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-300-10583-5
  4. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  5. ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  6. ^ a b Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 258–270


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