Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill, Stoke On Trent

Image: © Brian Deegan Taken: 3 Dec 2017

Parish church.1842 by George Gilbert Scott and Moffatt. Stone with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated style with west tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles and clerestory, chancel.4-stage west tower with clasping buttresses terminating in pinnacles. West door with paired shafts to triple chamfered arch. 3-light window over then an oculus. Paired bell chamber lights. Trefoiled frieze below parapet. Spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. South porch with shafts to moulded arch repeated on inner doorway. Nave of 4 bays divided by gableted buttresses, each with a 2-light traceried window. Corbels support projecting parapet. Low clerestory above, with quatrefoil windows. Ornate chancel: shafts with foliate capitals and hood moulds to windows. Inside, high arcade of 5 bays with clusters shafts carrying rib vaulted ceiling. Encaustic floor tiles throughout and tiled dado with high glazed frieze and quatrefoil memorial tiles inset. Original pews with poppy-head bench ends. Deep-moulded chancel arch. Wood reredos with interlace in panelling and riddle posts, installed as war memorial. Painted panelled ceiling to chancel, and vaulted roof over apse. Early-medieval-style stained glass to chancel, with small lozenges containing scenes, and Mannerist-style glass in south aisle of 1902-1904. The church was endowed by Herbert Minton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartshill,_Staffordshire http://www.thepotteries.org/listed/66a.html

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