Holy Trinity Church, Bingley

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Holy Trinity Church, Bingley
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Holy Trinity Church, Bingley
CountryEngland
Denomination Church of England
Weekly attendance150 per week [1]
Website Official Website
History
StatusParish Church
Dedicated5 December 1975
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Administration
Diocese Leeds
Archdeaconry Bradford
Deanery Airedale
Parish Holy Trinity, Bingley
Clergy
Vicar(s) Reverend Andrew Clarke [2]

Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican parish church in the town of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England notable for its original church being demolished by explosive charge on 7 April 1974. [3]

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History

Up until 1868, the parish in Bingley was singular under the Church of All Saints in the north of the town. The population in Bingley had increased greatly during the 19th century due to the Industrial Revolution and the decision was taken to create a new parish when All Saints Church was too full to carry on. [4] The Council voted to establish a chapelry upon the new parish on the 8 May 1869. [5] The new parish would include Gilstead, Cottingley and parts of the new town of Bingley. Because of the influence of Tractarianism, when the plans for the new Italian Gothic church went on show, some denounced it as Roman . [6] The church's Pre-Raphaelite influenced building caused John Ruskin, who was staying in Bingley in 1881, to comment that it was of 'severe simplicity and dignity.' [7] Pevsner described the building as; "disappointing, dark in its desperately drab surroundings, and the school also built at the same time would scarcely be recognized as the work of an architect of genius". [8]

The church was consecrated on the 23 October 1868 by Bishop Bickersteth when a population of 4,500 was assigned to it. [9] The church, designed by the Victorian architect Richard Norman Shaw, [10] was built without a tower, although one was added later which the foundations were not strong enough for. Even as soon as 1882, it was noted that the tower was unsafe when a large stone came crashing down during a church service shocking the congregation. [11]

In 1973, cracks were beginning to show in the church [12] and the tower was scaffolded to allow piecemeal demolition of the structure. Two weeks before its explosive demolition, workmen at the top said that they heard the tower and church audibly creak and groan prompting the mass evacuation of nearby houses. [13] The decision was taken by convention of the architects, demolition experts and church authorities that blasting was the only option and so the tower and church were demolished by explosive charge on Palm Sunday in 1974. [14] The congregation raised £23,000 to build a new church on the site. This structure was dedicated on the 5 December 1975 and is still in use today [15] with the stained glass from the original windows re-used in the Rose Window of the new church. [16]

A Sunday school was formed adjacent to the church in 1870, opening in 1871, Holy Trinity School became an all day boy and girls school in 1872. [17]

The parish includes St Wilfreds in Gilstead and along with the parish of Church of All Saints, Bingley (which includes the churches of St. Aidan, Crossflatts and St. Lawrence, Eldwick) is part of the Bingley Group Ministry. [18] The benefice used to lie within the Diocese of Bradford, but since 20 April 2014 it is now in the Diocese of Leeds. [19]

Vicars of Holy Trinity

The following is taken from booklet Holy Trinity Parish Church 1868 – 1968 [20] and from local records.

NameTenureNotes
Reverend Albert Hudson1868–1877
Reverend H L Williams1877–1888
Reverend F W Bardsley1888–1910
Reverend F A Hodd1910–1923
Reverend H W Sherwin1923–1926
Reverend P Sowerby1927–1932
Reverend G S Addison1932–1935
Reverend A Langford Jones1935–1937The Lady Chapel of the old Trinity building is dedicated in memory of Rev Jones
Reverend R H Place1938–1944
Reverend Hugh Hunter1944–1954Honorary Canon of Bradford Cathedral 1948
Reverend Arthur Raymond Gaunt1955–1958
Reverend W H McLaren1960–1965
Reverend Peter Amor1965–1972
Reverend John Holford1973–1986
Reverend John Cooper1987–1992
Reverend Andrew Clarke1993 –Current incumbent

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