Church of the Holy Trinity, Berwick-on-Tweed
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Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-on-Tweed
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| Coordinates: 55°46′19.04″N 2°0′2.2″W / 55.7719556°N 2.000611°W | |
| Location | Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Website | Berwick Parish Church, Holy Trinity with St. Mary |
| History | |
| Dedication | Holy Trinity |
| Consecrated | 1660 |
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| Parish | Berwick Holy Trinity and St Mary |
| Deanery | Norham |
| Archdeaconry | Lindisfarne |
| Archdiocese | Province of York |
| Diocese | Diocese of Newcastle |
The Church of the Holy Trinity, Berwick-on-Tweed is a Church of England parish church in the centre of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. It is a rare example of a church built in the Commonwealth era.
In 1641, King Charles I gave money to replace the dilapidated old church in Berwick. In the following year, however, the Civil War began. Despite this, more money was collected and stone for building the church was taken from the old Berwick Castle. In 1650 John Young of Blackfriars, a London mason, was contracted to build the new church, and by 1652 the church was complete. This makes it one of the very few churches to have been built during the Commonwealth of England; other examples include Ninekirks, Holy Trinity, Staunton Harold and St Matthias Old Church in Poplar, London.
The design of the church is based on that of St Katharine Cree in London. It has a side aisle on each side of the nave, and the arcades are of the Tuscan order. The church was built with no chancel, altar, organ, tower or bells. However the church interior was surrounded by galleries on all four walls.
In 1660, two years after the Restoration of the Monarchy, John Cosin, Bishop of Durham, consecrated the church. He demanded that a chancel should be built at the east end to accommodate a communion table. However, this was not done until 1855 when the present chancel was built and many original Gothic windows were redesigned in the Classical style. The 1855 west window is particularly fine and includes 16th- and 17th-century Flemish roundels formerly in the private chapel of the Duke of Buckingham at Canons Park, Middlesex.
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