Church Bank, Church of Holy Trinity

HER Number

7130

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Church Bank, Church of Holy Trinity

Place

Southwick

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Parish Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Parish church. 1842. By George L Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Nave with west tower, chancel with north vestry. Early English style, with lancets. Interior – geometric-pattern tiled sanctuary floor. Painted stone altar with paintings of Evangelists in cusped panels. Renewed pulpit and communion rail (using older posts). Arch-braced chancel roof. Queen-post nave roof. Stained glass – east window to Scott family d.1864 and 1882. Chancel has 3 lights to Agnes Collingwood d.1875, and Sarah Thompson d. 1866, with Christ the Good Shepherd, Faith and Hope, signed Alex Gibbs of London. Nave south-east windows also signed Alex Gibbs 1901 to Collingwood rector d.1898. Other nave window of Good Samaritan commemorating Charles Pickersgill, Crown Road shipbuilding yard owner. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

438180

Northing

558560

Grid Reference

NZ438180558560

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/283; T. Corfe and G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland, p 28