Holy Trinity Church. Skipton. Dec 28th 2010.

[SilentHill]

Next door to the Castle stands Trinity Church. It would have been rude not to pop in for a butchers.

The first church was built in the early 1100's, possibly made of wood. Another church was built about 1300 with help from the monks at Bolton Priory. It was extended further eastwards towards the end of the 1400's, probably helped by a gift from Richard III.

The tower was damaged during the Civil War, but it was restored in the 1650's (along with some of the windows too) by Lady Anne Clifford from the castle next door. The tower suffered again in 1853 - this time from lightning. It and the roof were repaired soon afterwards.

At about the same time gas lighting was fitted in the church: this made the church warmer and that caused an unbearable smell from the burial vaults! so 30 centimetres of concrete had to be put on the floor.

There used to be galleries with seats to fit everyone in, and the pews used to be box pews, but the galleries came down in 1909 and the pews were replaced by the present oak ones.

Lightning never strikes twice they say... well it did at Holy Trinity! In 1925 it caused a fire which completely destroyed the organ.

Visited with joybee

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH.





The Altar.



The Royal Coat Of Arms.



The Golden Eagle.



The Organ. I pulled out all the stops to get this







Stained Glass. The Dragon Slayer.





And the view down the central aisle.





That's yer lot folks

[ceejam]

Nice... that eagle is brilliant, you do shoot a cracking church mate.

[Clough]

loving the eagle! gold shiney death from above

[Krypton]

Did you get any close ups of the Organ. Looks like a Preistley Organ. I play one very similar.

[SilentHill]

I play with my organ too mate. And quite frequently may I add

Didn't get a close up buddy. Would imagine a search on the net will provide the answer?

[judderman62]

very nice fella - looks a nice lil church does that