The church was built in 1874 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3] Holy Trinity was built on the site of an earlier church. For 67 years the curate of that church had been Robert Walker, who was made famous by the poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth called him "Wonderful Walker", and made reference to him in his Duddon Sonnets and in the poem The Excursion.[2][4] It was paid for mainly by the industrialist H. W. Schneider.[4]
Architecture
Exterior
Holy Trinity is constructed in coursedslaterubble and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave and chancel in one range, with an organ loft and vestry to the north, and a south porch. At the west end is a gabledbellcote. All the windows are lancets. There are wide buttresses externally between the nave and the chancel. A stone is attached to the porch incorporating a sundial; this had formerly been the shearing stool of Walker.[2]
Interior
Inside the church is a stoup with a trefoilarcade.[4] Painted on the wall of the chancel are the Ten Commandments. Also in the church is a brass. This had formerly been on a gravestone; it is to the memory of Walker, who died in 1802, and his wife, Anne, who had died two years previously.[2] The stained glass, dating from 1897, is by Kempe.[4] The two-manual organ was built in 1902 by Young.[5]
^Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 87, ISBN1-86220-054-8