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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664047

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)