Site of Holy Trinity Church, Church Street, Rugby
Holy Trinity Church, Rugby
Warwickshire County Council
Holy Trinity church, Rugby.
Image courtesy of Niall Guiver
Description of this historic site
The site of Holy Trinity Church which was built during the Imperial period. The church was demolished in 1983. It was situated on Church Street, Rugby.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Chancel, transepts, and central tower, nave with aisles, and S porch. Consecrated in 1854 as a chapel of ease to the parish church. In the Decorated style from the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott.
4 The last service was held in 1974. When the site was visited in 1983 demolition had just been completed.
5 Photograph of the lych gate.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
What a shame this beautiful building has been demolished! It was built in the mid nineteenth century, during the long incumbency of the Revd John Moultrie. It is referred to in “Well Remembered” (1953), the memoirs of Claude Blagden, Bishop of Peterborough 1927-1949 and Rector of Rugby from 1912-1927. Blagden frequently mentions Holy Trinity in his book, and in particular writes about the curate in charge, Dick Dugdale, who left Rugby to be an army chaplain in France in 1915. Dugdale was killed just six weeks before the Arnistice and Blagden confessed thirty-five years later that he could still “scarcely think about his death unmoved”. Dick Dugdale and the men of Holy Trinity parish who did not return after the Great War are remembered on the lychgate which still stands on the church site (though I believe it has been moved slightly from its original position). In “Well Remembered”, Blagden mentions a small but graceful plaque to commemorate Dick Dugdale that was erected on the stall that he occupied while he was curate in charge of Holy Trinity. I wonder where that is now? “At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them”.
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