Holy Trinity Church, Hoghton

Holy Trinity Church stands in the village of Hoghton, Lancashire, among rolling fields in north-west England. Built between 1822 and 1823 by Robert Roper, it is an active Anglican parish church with a Grade II listing. A grant of £2,037 from the Church Building Commission helped pay for its construction. In about 1887 James Bertwistle of Blackburn rebuilt much of the church and added the tower, chancel and south aisle. The building is made of ashlar stone and follows Early English style. The church’s exterior shows a five-bay nave, six-bay south aisle, two-bay chancel and west tower in three stages. The tower has angle buttresses, a stair turret and an embattled parapet. Lancet windows line the nave and aisle, while the chancel has two-light side windows and a large five-light east window. A circular clock face sits above two-light windows on the north and south sides. The bell openings are louvred and the gables carry quatrefoil windows topped by stone crosses. Inside, quatrefoil columns support the arcade between nave and aisle. The octagonal font dates from the 1880s and the reredos remembers the First World War. Stained glass in the east window shows the Te Deum from about 1929. The baptistery holds glass by Shrigley and Hunt from the mid-20th century. A ring of eight bells cast in 1886 hangs in the tower, and monuments recall the de Hoghton family and Thomas Swinburn, an early railway engineer. War graves in the churchyard mark soldiers from the two world wars.