Holy Trinity Church | |
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50°51′18″N 0°34′36″E / 50.8551°N 0.5767°E | |
Location | Robertson Street/Trinity Street, Hastings, East Sussex |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church of England |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Founded | 1851 |
Founder(s) | Countess Waldegrave |
Dedication | Holy Trinity |
Consecrated | 1858 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade II* |
Designated | 14 September 1976 |
Architect(s) | Samuel Sanders Teulon |
Style | Decorated/Early English Gothic Revival |
Groundbreaking | 1856 |
Completed | 1859 |
Administration | |
Province | Province of Canterbury |
Diocese | Chichester |
Archdeaconry | Hastings |
Deanery | Rural Deanery of Hastings |
Parish | Hastings Holy Trinity |
Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in the centre of Hastings, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex. It was built during the 1850s—a period when Hastings was growing rapidly as a seaside resort—by prolific and eccentric architect Samuel Sanders Teulon, who was "chief among the rogue architects of the mid-Victorian Gothic Revival".[1] The Decorated/Early English-style church is distinguished by its opulently decorated interior and its layout on a difficult town-centre site, chosen after another location was found to be unsuitable. The church took eight years to build, and a planned tower was never added. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.