Holy Trinity, Horwich - Church of England

Holy Trinity,
Church Street,
Horwich
Lancashire

Cemeteries

The church has a graveyard. The monumental inscriptions have been recorded and published by the Bolton branch of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society.

Church History

It was founded before 1552.

The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1831, at a cost of £6,000, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of a nave, aisles and a lofty embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 6 bells: there is one stained window and a monument, by Westmacott, to Joseph Ridgway esq. who by his will, dated 1841, left a number of annual donations to the minister and officers of the church: there are sittings for 1,400 persons, 630 being free. The register dates from the year 1660. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £350 with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Deane, and held since 1853 by the Rev. Henry Septimus Pigot M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, and a surrogate: the vicarage house was erected in 1863, at a cost of £1,200, of which £800 was defrayed from Ridgway's bequest for this purpose. A Mission school church was erected in 1889, at a cost, including site, of £1,200; the Rev. Thomas Storey Bates has been curate in charge since 1892.

from Slater's Directory, Lancashire 1895

Church Records

Whilst every effort has been made to record exact details of record office and library holdings you are recommended to check with them before visiting to ensure that they do hold the records and years you wish to examine. Similarly check with transcript publishers to ensure they cover the records and years you require before making a purchase.

Original registers

Manchester Archives and Local Studies, Manchester Central Library, hold:

• Baptisms 1660-1690 (fragments only), 1695-1860
• Marriages 1695-1753, 1832-1881
• Burials 1660-1690 (fragments only), 1695-1873

Bishop's Transcripts

Lancashire Record Office hold copies of:

• Baptisms 1749-1846, 1871-1888
• Marriages 1749-1780, 1832
• Burials 1749-1846, 1871-1888

Indexes

The IGI contains:

• Baptisms - 1660-1841

Maps

The church is located at OS grid reference SD6445011530. You can see this on maps provided by:

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