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© Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
IoE Number:
471610
Location:
CHURCH OF THE SACRED TRINITY, TRINITY MARKET
SALFORD, SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
Date Photographed:
03 October 1999
Date listed:
31 January 1952
Date of last amendment:
31 January 1952
Grade
II*
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SALFORD
SJ8398NW TRINITY MARKET
949-1/20/111 Church of the Sacred Trinity
31/01/52
GV II*
Church, now also library and offices. 1752 with tower of 1635.
Restoration 1871-74 by Holden. Ashlar. West tower, nave and
shallow chancel.
EXTERIOR: 2-stage tower transitional Gothic-classical style,
with Decorated window divided by transom in lower stage, and
paired bell chamber lights above. Angle pilasters, and
triglyph frieze below embattled parapet with cusped finials.
Leaded spirelet with wrought-iron weather vane. Nave expressed
as 2 storeys for galleried interior, with round-arched
doorways to NW and SW with heavy voussoirs to arches and
round-arched windows with kneelers and keystones on each
floor, divided by plain string course. Modillion eaves cornice
below parapet. Chancel projects as small rectangular bay with
pair of round-headed windows with round-headed niche above,
and string course.
INTERIOR: galleried plan with aisles below gallery now
partitioned off to form separate offices. Galleries themselves
now in use as library. Moulded wood panelling to gallery and
to casing of supporting piers, with Doric columns above.
Shallow king-post and panelled roof dates from Victorian
restoration.