Holy Trinity Church, Howgill

Holy Trinity Church, Howgill

Holy Trinity Church, Howgill
Holy Trinity Church, Howgill
Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°20′58″N 2°33′54″W / 54.3495°N 2.5650°W / 54.3495; -2.5650
OS grid reference SD 633 950
Location Howgill, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website Howgill: Holy Trinity, Howgill
History
Consecrated 29 October 1838
Architecture
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 14 June 1984
Architect(s) Edmund Sharpe
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Completed 1838
Specifications
Materials Rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof
Administration
Parish Howgill
Deanery Ewecross
Archdeaconry Craven
Diocese Leeds
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Canon A W Fell
Laity
Churchwarden(s) Mrs D M Parker
Mrs M E Stainton
Parish administrator Mr S Ellis

Holy Trinity Church stands in a country lane near the hamlet of Howgill, between Sedbergh and Tebay, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Ewecross, the archdeaconry of Craven and the Diocese of Leeds.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

The church was built in 1838 to a design by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe.[2] It replaced a small chapel on the other side of Chapel Back that dated back to about 1685.[3][4] The main person responsible for its creation was Revd Isaac Green, the second master at Sedbergh School, and incumbent of the parish. The land was given by Stephen Sedgwick.[4] The new church was consecrated on 29 October 1838 by the Rt Revd Charles Longley, Bishop of Ripon.[3]

Architecture

Holy Trinity Church has a simple design in Early English style; it is built in rubble with sandstone dressings and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave with a short chancel. The west front is gabled with buttresses at the corners; it contains three windows and a doorway, above which is a bellcote. On both the north and south sides are six lancet windows, with a buttress between the first and second windows from the west on each side. The chancel is slightly lower than the nave. It has one window on each side, and a triple lancet window at the east end. Internally there is a west gallery, box pews and a panelled font.[2]

See also

References

  1. Howgill, Holy Trinity, Church of England, retrieved 23 March 2010
  2. 1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of the Holy Trinity, Howgill Lane, Sedburgh (1384143)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 May 2012
  3. 1 2 Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 130, 133
  4. 1 2 Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 210, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
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