Heywood: Holy Trinity
Overview
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
1876
The east window has six main lights divided into three scenes depicting Christ and St. Mary Magdalene, The Angels and the Marys at the Sepulchre and Christ with the Disciples by Galilee; in the numerous tracery lights above is Christ in Glory surrounded by musician angels; by Ward and Hughes.
Stained Glass
Chancel north I: with texts against coloured geometrical backgrounds
Stained Glass
Chancel south I : WIth texts against coloured geometrical background.
Interior
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
17th Century
The altar is a seventeenth-century communion table with a rustic representation of The Last Supper on the front and representations in similar style of Christ Carrying the Cross and Moses Receiving the Tablets on each end, all carved in relief, perhaps seventeenth-century continental work. The exaggerated baluster legs are joined by a central stretcher with pierced gothic arcading. The toprail facing east shows the original fluting.
Pulpit
1849
The pulpit is of Caen stone, octagonal on an octagonal stem. It is entered from the vestry. The panels have blind tracery of uniform design of a trefoiled arch filled with foliage above a lower ogee arch.
Lectern
Late 19th Century
The lectern is an oak two-way desk on a buttressed pedestal
Font (object)
c.1849
The font is octagonal, doubtless of c.1849 and has various different tracery designs, mostly within circles, round the bowl. The flat oak cover has IHS in inventively complicated ironwork.
Organ (object)
c.1890
The organ is a small two-manual instrument by Gray and Davison.
Rail
The communion rails are wooden, simply an arcade of trefoiled arches.
Churchyard
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
Further information
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