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City Business Park

This OS cut mark can be found on Nos1-5 Lawrence Hill. It marks a point 15.548m above mean sea level.

Clarence Road which is about to split into two at the building used for YMCA training.

The exchange used to occupy a smaller site just a very short distance away before moving here. The uncommon architecture is no defence against the tide of paint, though.

Now an arts centre, Holy Trinity is a Late Georgian Commissioners' gothic essay by Thomas Rickman, the man whose terminology to define the gothic is still in use today. 'Characteristically Perpendicular' says Pevsner, to emphasise that point. Built in Bath stone at a huge cost of £ 8,231 and completed in 1832, 5 years before Victoria came to the throne.

With a speeding police car.

Holy Trinity was consecrated on 17th February, 1832. It served the growing local population in what became a relatively poor working class area. As time went by, the congregation dwindled and the authorities released the church in the 1960s. It then became used, on and off, as a community venue for local groups. Often the church building fell back into dereliction before reopening again. Today it is a music and arts venue and has remained open for a couple of decades; it even has received a licence to perform civil ceremonies and now can hold weddings once again! A bolt benchmark is just visible at the foot of the nearest bell tower - see Image

Holy Trinity church was partly funded after the defeat of Napoleon and architects Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson were employed to design it. They used a Perpendicular style in creating two open octagonal bell towers on the west end, which lack bells now that the church has been decommissioned and has become an arts centre.

The former Holy Trinity church, built 1829-32 architects Thomas Rickman and Hutchinson. It is now a community arts centre, but still listed grade 2* (list entry 1282076).