Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton

Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton
Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton
	Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton, from the southwest
	Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton Location in the Borough of Chorley
	53°43′41″N2°35′06″W / 53.72815°N 2.58506°W
OS grid reference	SD 615 259
Location	Hoghton, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Holy Trinity, Hoghton
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	30 January 1987
Architect(s)	Robert Roper ; James Birtwhistle
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1822
Completed	c, 1887
Specifications
Materials	Stone
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Blackburn
Archdeaconry	Blackburn
Deanery	Leyland
Parish	Hoghton
Clergy
Priest(s)	Revd Hannah Boyd
Laity
Reader(s)	Howard Watson; Christine Keenan

Last updated August 18, 2024

Holy Trinity Church is in the village of Hoghton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.^[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.^[2] It is a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.^[3]

History

Holy Trinity was built between 1822 and 1823, and was designed by Robert Roper. A grant of £2,037 (equivalent to £230,000in 2023)^[4] was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission.^[3] The church was almost completely rebuilt in about 1887 by James Bertwistle of Blackburn, who added the tower, chancel and south aisle.^[5]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in ashlar stone. The architectural style is mainly Early English. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave, a six-bay south aisle, a two-bay chancel, and west tower. The tower is in three stages, with angle buttresses and a southeast stair turret. It has an arched north doorway, and a three-light west window with Perpendicular tracery. On the north and south sides, at a higher level, is a two-light window with a circular clock face above it. The bell openings have two lights, and are louvred. At the summit of the tower is an embattled parapet. Along the sides of the nave and the south aisle are lancet windows. The aisle also has a priest's door, coupled lancets in the east gable, and triple lancets in the west gable. The chancel has two-light windows on the sides, and a large five-light east window. All the gables contain a quatrefoil window towards the apex, and are surmounted by a stone cross.^[2]

Interior

The arcade between the nave and the aisle has four bays, and is carried on quatrefoil columns.^[2] The reredos is a memorial to the First World War. The font is octagonal and dates probably from the 1880s. In the east window is stained glass dating from about 1929 depicting the Te Deum . The baptistery contains glass by Shrigley and Hunt dating from the middle of the 20th century. The monuments include one to Thomas Swinburn, an early engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, who died in 1881. Elsewhere are memorials to members of the de Hoghton family of Hoghton Tower.^[5] The two-manual organ was built in 1868, and rebuilt in 1886 by Thorold and Smith. It was restored in 2004–05 by David Wells.^[6] There is a ring of eight bells, all cast in 1886 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.^[7]

External features

The churchyard contains war graves of two British and one Australian soldier of World War I, and a British airman of World War II.^[8]

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References

↑ Holy Trinity, Hoghton, Church of England , retrieved 19 October 2011
1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of the Holy Trinity, Hoghton (1072536)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 19 October 2011
1 2 Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 327, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4
↑ 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 7 May 2024.
1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 338, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
↑ Lancashire, Preston, Hoghton, Holy Trinity (N13238), British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 19 October 2011
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↑ HOGHTON (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 15 February 2013

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[1] Holy Trinity, Hoghton, Church of England , retrieved 19 October 2011

[nhl-2] 1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of the Holy Trinity, Hoghton (1072536)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 19 October 2011

[port-3] 1 2 Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 327, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4

[inflation-UK-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 7 May 2024.

[pev-5] 1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 338, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9

[6] Lancashire, Preston, Hoghton, Holy Trinity (N13238), British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 19 October 2011

[7] Houghton, Holy Trinity, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers , retrieved 19 October 2011

[8] HOGHTON (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 15 February 2013

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