Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield

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The church viewed from Trinity Street
Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield
53°39′00″N1°47′35″W / 53.649938°N 1.793052°W / 53.649938; -1.793052
Location Huddersfield
Country United Kingdom
Denomination Anglican
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designation Grade II*
Architect(s) Thomas Taylor
Groundbreaking 1816
Completed1819
Administration
Province York
Diocese Leeds
Episcopal area Huddersfield
Archdeaconry Halifax
Deanery Huddersfield

Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1819 and is a grade II* listed building. The church is situated just off Trinity Street, named after the church and forming part of the main A640 road from Huddersfield to Rochdale, and is just outside the town centre, in the suburb of Marsh. The parish forms part of the diocese of Leeds. [1] [2]

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History

In the early 19th century the town of Huddersfield was growing rapidly as a result of the industrial revolution and the town's parish church was too small to cope. In order to address this, Holy Trinity was built between 1816 and 1819 as a chapel of ease, and consecrated in 1820. [3] The new church was funded by Benjamin Haigh Allen, a local banker, and designed by the architect Thomas Taylor of Leeds.

Benjamin Haigh Allen invited Henry Maddock (1781-1826) to be Holy Trinity's first Perpetual Curate. Maddock met Allen during a preaching tour he gave in 1814 along with the Revd. Legh Richmond, on behalf of the Church Mission Society. [4]

Holy Trinity became a parish church in its own right in 1857, serving Marsh and the adjoining suburbs of Edgerton and Springwood. [2] [5]

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References

  1. Webster 2012, p. 116–117.
  2. 1 2 Historic England, "Church of the Holy Trinity, Huddersfield (1223128)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 August 2017
  3. Wolffe, John, ed. (2000). Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship. York: University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research. p. 22. ISBN   1-904497-11-X.
  4. "No. 8: Rev. Henry John Maddock Holy Trinity's first incumbent, 1820 - 5" (PDF). holytrinityhuddersfield.com. p. 1. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  5. "History". Holy Trinity Huddersfield. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.

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