Holy Trinity Platt Church
| Holy Trinity Platt Church | |
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| Holy Trinity Church, Rusholme | |
Holy Trinity Platt Church from the south
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 Holy Trinity Platt Church
Location in Greater Manchester
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| Coordinates: 53°27′00″N 2°13′32″W / 53.4501°N 2.2255°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 851,948 |
| Location | Platt Lane, Rusholme, Manchester |
| Country | England, UK |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Churchmanship | Evangelical |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Dedication | Holy Trinity |
| Consecrated | 26 June 1846 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* |
| Designated | 18 December 1963 |
| Architect(s) | Edmund Sharpe |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1845 |
| Completed | 1912 |
| Specifications | |
| Spire height | 170 feet (52 m) |
| Materials | Terracotta, slate roof |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Holy Trinity at Rusholme |
| Deanery | Hulme |
| Archdeaconry | Manchester |
| Diocese | Manchester |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Rev Steve James |
| Laity | |
| Reader(s) | Peter Capon, David Poole Isabel Turley |
| Churchwarden(s) | Rob Turley Richard Lander |
Holy Trinity Platt Church (also known as Holy Trinity Church, Rusholme), is in Platt Fields Park in Rusholme, Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Hulme, the archdeaconry of Manchester, and the diocese of Manchester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is the second "pot church" designed by Edmund Sharpe, so-called because the main building material used in the construction of the church is terracotta.
The church was built in 1845–46 to a design by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe. It was built for Thomas Carrill Worsley of Platt Hall. The Worsley family chapel had been Platt Chapel, but this had become a Unitarian chapel early in the 19th century. Thomas Worsley planned to build an Anglican church, but in this he was in competition with a neighbour, a Mr Anson of Birch Hall, to build the first Anglican church in the area. Anson built St James' Church in Danes Road, Rusholme, but Worsley arranged for Holy Trinity to be consecrated before its building was complete. Worsley chose the dedication to the Holy Trinity to show his opposition to the Unitarians. The church cost £4,000 (equivalent to £350,000 in 2015) (excluding the stained glass), and when built it could accommodate between 650 and 700 people.
Sharpe's first "pot church" had been St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge. The terracotta for the body of this church was supplied, as before, by the Ladyshore Coal and TerraCotta Company, which was owned by Sharpe's brother-in-law, John Fletcher. However, there was a dispute with Fletcher about the costs; Fletcher supplied the terracotta for the body of the church, but the material for the spire was provided by a different manufacturer, Fletcher's brother-in-law, Edmund Peel Willock. The church was consecrated on 26 June 1846 by Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, although the spire was not completed until 1850. The terracotta for the spire proved to be inferior to Fletcher's material, and the spire had to be replaced in 1912. In 1966–67 a church hall was built and attached to the east wall of the church.
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