Church Micro 7795 - Holy Trinity, Brackenfield
Brackenfield's Holy Trinity Church was built half a mile from the village in 1856 by T.C. Hine to replace the Chapel of Ease which was built around 1500.
Kelly's Directory of 1932 describes it as "an edifice in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel with memorial chapel, nave of three bays, north aisle, porch, vestry, and a north-west tower with spire, containing 3 bells". There is a brass screen erected to the memory of Gladwin Turbutt esq. by his Ogston tenantry in 1872, and at the west end of the church is the old screen of the original Trinity chapel, restored, with four of the oak benches, in 1881. The chancel was ornamented with carved oak in 1906 by the parishioners. There are 230 sittings. The parish records, for the chapel, date from 1845, and of the church from 1857.
There is a memorial to the parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918 in the churchyard, which has a sizeable extension to the east of the original plot.
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