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Holy Trinity Church, Howgill
Holy Trinity Church, HowgillLocation in Cumbria
54°20′58″N 2°33′54″W / 54.3495°N 2.5650°W / 54.3495; -2.5650
OS grid reference	SD 633 950
Location	Howgill, Cumbria
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	www.achurchnearyou.com/howgill-holy-trinity
History
Consecrated	29 October 1838
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	14 June 1984
Architect(s)	Edmund Sharpe
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1838
Specifications
Materials	Rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Anglican Diocese of Carlisle
Archdeaconry	Westmorland and Furness
Deanery	Kendal
Parish	Howgill
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Andy Burgess (2022–) Revd Andy McMullon (2020)

Holy Trinity Church stands in a country lane near the hamlet of Howgill, between Sedbergh and Tebay, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and the Anglican Diocese of Carlisle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

The church was built in 1838 to a design by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe. It replaced a small chapel on the other side of Chapel Back that dated back to about 1685. The main person responsible for its creation was Revd Isaac Green, the second master at Sedbergh School, and incumbent of the parish. The land was given by Stephen Sedgwick. The new church was consecrated on 29 October 1838 by the Rt Revd Charles Longley, Bishop of Ripon.

Architecture

Holy Trinity Church has a simple design in Early English style; it is built in rubble with sandstone dressings and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave with a short chancel. The west front is gabled with buttresses at the corners; it contains three windows and a doorway, and above it is a bellcote. On both the north and south sides are six lancet windows, with a buttress between the first and second windows from the west on each side. The chancel is slightly lower than the nave. It has one window on each side, and a triple lancet window at the east end. Internally there is a west gallery, box pews and a panelled font.

See also

• Listed buildings in Sedbergh
• List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe

References

1. Howgill, Holy Trinity, Church of England, retrieved 23 March 2010
2. ^ Historic England, "Church of the Holy Trinity, Howgill Lane, Sedburgh (1384143)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 May 2012
3. ^ Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 130, 133
4. ^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 210, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8

• Church of England church buildings in Cumbria
• Grade II listed churches in Cumbria
• Gothic Revival church buildings in England
• Gothic Revival architecture in Cumbria
• Churches completed in 1838
• 19th-century Church of England church buildings
• Anglican Diocese of Leeds
• Edmund Sharpe buildings