- Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands
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Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands 
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands, from the southeastLocation in Lancashire
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-SandsCoordinates: 54°06′10″N 2°47′30″W / 54.1028°N 2.7917°W OS grid reference SD 483 677 Location Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Holy Trinity, Bolton-le-Sands History Former name(s) St Michael's Church,
Bolton-le-SandsDedication Holy Trinity,
formerly Saint MichaelArchitecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 2 May 1968 Architect(s) Sharpe and Paley (chancel)
E. G. Paley (restoration)Architectural type Church Style Gothic, Gothic Revival Specifications Materials Stone, slate roofs Administration Parish Bolton-le-Sands Deanery Tunstall Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Priest(s) Revd Gerwyn Capon Assistant priest Revd Barbara Jones Laity Reader Janet Thompson Churchwarden(s) Karen Hillis Parish administrator Jane Ruscoe Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands, (formerly St Michael's Church), is in the village of Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with that of St Mark, Nether Kellett.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[2]
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History
A church has been on the site since before 1094.[3] The oldest parts of the present church are the tower and the north arcade, which date from the late 15th century. The nave was built in 1813.[2] In 1847 the Lancaster architectural practice of Sharpe and Paley added the chancel.[4] The church was restored in 1863–64 by E. G. Paley (by this time Sharpe had retired from the practice).[5] The north aisle was widened in 1880, at which time a timber porch was also added.[2] This work was done by the same architectural practice, by then Paley and Austin.[6]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in rubble with slate roofs. The tower is in ashlar sandstone, and the south wall of the nave is pebbledashed. Its plan consists of a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel and a west tower. The tower is in three stages. In the bottom stage is a west door and a three-light window.[2] This window is flanked by niches with pinnacles.[7] The bell openings also have three lights. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses, and on its summit is a battlemented parapet.[2] At its southwest is a projection for stairs.[7] The windows in the south nave wall contain Perpendicular tracery.[2] The chancel is in Early English style.[4]
Interior
The arcade is in five bays running between the nave and chancel, and the north aisle.[2] It is supported by octagonal piers, other than the second pier from the east, which is rectangular.[7] The nave has a hammerbeam roof, and the chancel roof is scissor-braced.[2] Between the chancel and the aisle is a sandstone memorial to the memory of a man who died in 1642 with the inscription "It is supposed that he lived above 100 yeares".[2][7] Elsewhere there are 19th-century monuments in Classical style, and brasses dated 1692 and 1872. The reredos is in alabaster and dates from 1897. The stained glass in the west window dates from 1891. It depicts archangels, was designed by Carl Almquist, and made by Shrigley and Hunt.[7] The glass in the chancel windows was designed by William Wailes.[4] Also in the church are two pieces of carved Anglo-Saxon stone dating from the 10th century.[7]
External features
In the churchyard to the south of the church is a square sandstone cross base with two steps. Its age is not known. It is surmounted by a later square block and a 20th-century cross.[8]
See also
- List of works by Sharpe and Paley
- List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ Holy Trinity, Bolton-le-Sands, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/bolton-le-sands-holy-trinity/, retrieved 12 August 2011
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Church of St Michael Holy Trinity, Bolton-le-Sands", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1071944, retrieved 12 August 2011
- ^ The Parish of Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks, http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bolton-le-Sands/index.html, retrieved 12 August 2011
- ^ a b c Hughes 2010, p. 218.
- ^ Price 1998, p. 73.
- ^ Price 1998, p. 80.
- ^ a b c d e f Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 165.
- ^ "Cross base in St Michael's Churchyard, Bolton-le-Sands", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1163519, retrieved 12 August 2011
- Bibliography
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes
- Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II* listed churches
- Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire
- 15th-century architecture
- Buildings and structures completed in 1880
- 19th-century church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- English Gothic architecture
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Sharpe and Paley buildings
- E. G. Paley buildings
- Buildings and structures in Lancaster
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