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© Ms Pamela Jackson LRPS
IoE Number:
388874
Location:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, ASHTON ROAD (west side)
OLDHAM, OLDHAM, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Ms Pamela Jackson LRPS
Date Photographed:
08 April 2001
Date listed:
23 July 1992
Date of last amendment:
23 July 1992
Grade
II
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OLDHAM
SD90SW ASHTON ROAD, Bardsley
780-1/3/12 (West side)
23/07/92 Church of the Holy Trinity
II
Parish church. 1844. By Starkey and Cuffley. Coursed and
squared rusticated rubble with Welsh slate roofs. West tower,
nave with 2 aisles and transepts, chancel with vestries each
side. Heavy Romanesque style. 3-stage west tower with
round-arched doorway with triple stepped shafts and interlaced
lancet tracery and windows above, then clock. 2-light
round-arched roll-moulded bell-chamber lights. Heavy
strap-work to parapet. Clasping buttresses form pinnacles.
Round-arched western aisle windows, with chevron moulding
following line of parapet above. Each aisle divided into 4
bays, each with a shallow segmental arch sprung between
pilasters, containing a single round-arched windows with
shafts and chevron moulding to continuous hood mould. Similar
wider segmental arch housing west windows of transepts. Triple
light north and south windows to transepts with plain
roll-moulding, and rose-window in gable apexes. Gabled
vestries each side of chancel, that to south possibly a later
addition. Stepped round-arched east windows to chancel with
plain moulding. Billet moulding following line of parapet
over.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, Nikolaus: South
Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).