Holy Trinity Church, an active Anglican parish church, is part of the Church of England within the Diocese of Lichfield, and the archdeaconry of Stoke-upon-Trent. It is a Grade II listed building.
The Holy Trinity Church provides worship services on Sunday at 10.30am
and Thursday at 10.00am.It also and holds weddings, baptisms and funerals.
The Grade II description given by Historic England reads as follows;
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NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
SJ84NW CHURCH STREET, Chesterton 644-1/3/60 (East side) 27/09/72 Church of Holy Trinity
Grade II
Church. 1851-2. By H. Ward and Son of Hanley. Coursed and squared red sandstone rubble, with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands and ridge cresting. North-west tower, nave, two aisles, chancel. 3-stage tower and brooch spire with 2 lucarnes. Decorated paired bell-chamber lights, corbel table. Shafts to south doorway with heavy plain hood mould. Foiled lancets to south aisle, grouped foiled lancets to north. Lancet windows divided by central buttress in west wall, with trefoil over. 3-light Early English style window with continuous hood mould and trefoiled light over to chancel, which has clasping angle buttresses with gablets and ball-flower decoration.
INTERIOR: nave arcade of 5 bays to north with cylindrical shafts with double-chamfered arches. Octagonal piers and cylindrical shafts to south arcade of 2 bays, interrupted by archway to tower, which is carried on corbels. North aisle windows recessed in paired trefoiled arches with central shaft. South windows are lancets in deep splayed embrasures. Nave roof with long raking trusses carried on corbels with collar and wind-braces. Chancel arch with responds that appear to cut the deep moulded archway. Chancel roof has braced rafters with collars. Oak altar, rails and reredos. Sedilia to south. Chancel screen is wrought-iron, a delicate design incorporating flowers and foliage. Stained glass: east window by Wailes, brightly coloured figures of Saint John and Christ, with dove in trefoil over; other unattributed windows in north aisle (1895) and east window of south aisle. Fragment of tomb slab or cross portraying figure carrying spear(?) c.800, and interlace decoration, found on nearby farm. Medieval font, octagonal with deep ogee moulding on each face. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: Harmondsworth).
Listing NGR: SJ8314749431" SOURCE: (
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The large churchyard surrounds the church but there are only a few headstones remaining, most of the area is now grassed over.
The Churchyard contains 9 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war. The Extension, which is 400 yards away from the Churchyard, contains 2 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war and 4 of the 1939-45 war.
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The 9 soldiers who died in the Service of their Country during the 1914-18 war are buried in the churchyard. Their names are recorded on one headstone.
The inscription on the headstone reads as follows;
1914 - 1918
THE SOLDIERS HONOURED HERE
DIED IN THE SERVICE
OF THEIR COUNTRY
AND LIE BURIED
IN THIS CHURCHYARD
PRIVATE T. ADAMS
ROYAL FUSILIERS 6.10.1915
PRIVATE A.A. BURLEY
ROYAL FUSILIERS 3.5.1915
LANCE BOMBARDIER E. GOODALL
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY 17.1.1919
PRIVATE T. HARVEY
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT 31.5.1918
SAPPER H. JONES
ROYAL ENGINEERS 21.8.1917
PRIVATE J. ROBERTS
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT 25.7.1918
PRIVATE H. SMITH
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT 20.8.1918
SAPPER L. SMITH
ROYAL ENGINEERS 13.7.1919
SERJEANT J. TOMKINSON
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT 29.5.1918