Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst
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Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst is in the village of Capenhurst, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Wirral South. Its benefice is combined with that of St Oswald, Backford.[2]
History
The church was built between 1856 and 1859 to a design by James Harrison. In 1889–90 the tower was built and details were added to the interior by John Douglas.[1]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in red sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings. The roof is of purple tiles. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a south porch, a two-bay chancel, a vestry, and a west tower with spire. The tower is in three stages with buttresses and it has an octagonal stair turret at the southwest corner. On the west of the tower is a three-light window a clock above it. Around the top of the tower is a timber-framed stage which carries a broach spire with small Lakeland slates and a louvred lucarne.[1]
Interior
Internally the reredos is of stone with panels on each side carved in the manner of medieval tiles with the Ten Commandments inscribed in Arts and Crafts style script.[1] The stained glass in the church is all by Herbert Bryans, a pupil of Kempe, and is dated from 1876 to a date after 1900.[3] There is a ring of six bells which were cast by John Taylor and Company in 1919.[4]
External features
The churchyard contains the war graves of two soldiers of World War I, and an airman of World War II.[5]
See also
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- Listed buildings in Capenhurst
- List of works by James Harrison
- List of church restorations, amendments and furniture by John Douglas
References
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- Churches completed in 1890
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- Church of England church buildings in Cheshire
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- Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
- John Douglas buildings
- Diocese of Chester
- James Harrison buildings