Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield

Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church
	The church viewed from Trinity Street
	Coordinates: 53°39′00″N 1°47′35″W / 53.649938°N 1.793052°W
Location	Huddersfield
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Anglican
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Architect(s)	Thomas Taylor
Groundbreaking	1816
Completed	1819
Administration
Deanery	Huddersfield
Archdeaconry	Halifax
Episcopal area	Huddersfield
Diocese	Leeds
Province	York

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]

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. 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.^[3]

Holy Trinity became a parish church in its own right in 1857, serving Marsh and the adjoining suburbs of Edgerton and Springwood.^[2]^[4]

References[]

^ Webster 2012, p. 116–117.
^ ^a ^b Historic England, "Church of the Holy Trinity, Huddersfield (1223128)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 August 2017
^ http://www.holytrinityhuddersfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Churchwardens-Blog-No-8.pdf^{[bare URL]}
^ "History". Holy Trinity Huddersfield. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.

Bibliography[]

Webster, Christopher (2012), "'Foremost among those who successfully promoted the ancient style of architecture': the churches of Thomas Taylor (1777/8–1826)", in Webster, Christopher (ed.), Episodes in the Gothic Revival: six church architects, Spire Studies in Architectural History, vol. 1, Reading: Spire Books, ISBN 978-1-904965-34-3