Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley
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Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley
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| 52°28′14″N 1°52′39″W / 52.4705°N 1.8776°WCoordinates: 52°28′14″N 1°52′39″W / 52.4705°N 1.8776°W | |
| Location | Birmingham |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Francis Goodwin |
| Groundbreaking | 1820 |
| Completed | 1822 |
| Construction cost | £14,235 |
| Closed | 1971 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 1821 persons |
| Length | 135.5 feet (41.3 m) |
| Width | 75.8 feet (23.1 m) |
| Height | 45 feet (14 m) |
| Spire height | 83.6 feet (25.5 m) |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Anglican Diocese of Birmingham |
Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley is a Grade II listed former Church of England parish church in Bordesley Birmingham.
An example of a Commissioners' church the church was built between 1820 and 1822 by the architect Francis Goodwin in the decorated perpendicular gothic style at an expense of £14,235, raised by subscription of the inhabitants, aided by a grant from the Parliamentary Commissioners. The church, said to have been modelled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge, was consecrated on 23 January 1823 by James Cornwallis the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. A parish was assigned out of St. Peter and St. Paul, Aston, the living, being a perpetual curacy in the gift of the Vicar of Aston, was called a vicarage from 1872; the patronage of which was transferred to the Aston Trustees in 1884. St Alban the Martyr, Birmingham Bordesley (Conybere St, originated as a building in Leopold Street, which was licensed as a mission of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, in 1865.
This former church has an exceptionally good interior with all its fittings and galleries. It has a conventional rectangular plan with shallow canted apse, faced in Bath stone which is enlivened by spirelet pinnacled buttresses diving the windows and with octagonal pinnacled turrets holding the corners whilst a larger pair flank the effectively recessed full height entrance bay under the parapeted gable. The soffit has a lrerne pattern of ribs over the large decorated west window, the tracery of cast iron. The porch proper is shallow and contained within the recess, a tripartite composition with an ogee arch to the central doorway with an ornate finial. The east end above the apse and a cast iron tracery rose. The coved ceiling still partially remains but the decoration of a high standard for the period, has been stripped and a floor inserted.
Holy Trinity was also important in reflecting the High Church movement of the Anglican Church at the time. The first vicar was succeeded by Rev Dr Joseph Oldknow who was Birmingham's first Ritualist priest. Oldknow was buried here and the Latin inscriptions which can be seen on the gravestones gives a clue to the church's Anglo-Catholic history. He in turn was succeeded in 1874 by Richard William Enraght who was imprisoned in 1880 when the church became the centre of a battle over high church practices. Enraght was prosecuted in 1880 in a trial which was known nationally as the Bordesley Wafer Case.
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