Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands

Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands, from the southeast
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands Location in the City of Lancaster district
Coordinates: 54°06′10″N 2°47′30″W / 54.1028°N 2.7917°W / 54.1028; -2.7917
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-Sands
Dedication	Holy Trinity, formerly Saint Michael
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	2 May 1968
Architect(s)	Sharpe and Paley (chancel, pulpit and reading desk) E. G. Paley (restoration) Paley and Austin (1881 alterations)
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 Nancy Goodrich

Holy Trinity Church (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. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

A church has been on the site since before 1094. 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. In 1847 the Lancaster architectural practice of Sharpe and Paley rebuilt the chancel, and in 1851 added a pulpit and a reading desk. The church was restored in 1863–64 by E. G. Paley (by this time Sharpe had retired from the practice). In 1881 the practice, now Paley and Austin, carried out further alterations, which included widening the north aisle, adding a vestry, a porch, a pulpit, and a font, lowering the floor, removing the gallery, opening the tower arch, replacing windows, reseating the church to accommodate 450 people, and retiling and refitting the chancel.

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. This window is flanked by niches with pinnacles. The bell openings also have three lights. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses, and on its summit is a battlemented parapet. At its southwest is a projection for stairs. The windows in the south nave wall contain Perpendicular tracery. The chancel is in Early English style.