Holy Trinity Gough Square

Coordinates: 51°30′55″N 0°06′31″W / 51.51528°N 0.10861°W / 51.51528; -0.10861

Holy Trinity

General information
Architectural style	Romanesque Revival architecture
Town or city	City of London
Country	England
Construction started	1838
Completed	1842
Demolished	1906
Cost	£1,600
Client	Anglican Church
Technical details
Structural system	Hexagonal
Design and construction
Architect	John Shaw
Engineer	Thomas Robinson

Holy Trinity Gough Square ^[1] was a Victorian church in the City of London.

History

Trinity Church was built in the parish of St Bride's in the City of London, on the initiative of the vicar, the Reverend Thomas Dale, who felt that the parish church was inadequate for the size of the population. He first proposed a schoolroom that would double as an occasional chapel, but soon found that it would be practical to build a church, funded by subscriptions, and grants from the Church Commissioners and the Metropolitan fund for the erection of churches. The first stone was laid on 3 October 1837, and the building was consecrated on 21 June the next year. The architect was John Shaw (Junior).^[2]

The church was built on a small, triangular site, at the junction of Great New Street and Pemberton Row, given by the Goldsmiths Company.^[2]

The main body of the church was hexagonal, with a large octagonal recess on the eastern side serving as a chancel. Two galleries supported on small iron columns ran around the church, with an organ in the upper gallery on the west side, over the main entrance. The exterior was faced in yellow brick, with round-headed windows. There was Norman-style tower topped by pinnacles.^[2]

The church seated 1100, half in free seats, the others rented at between 3 and 6 shillings a year.^[2] The social reformer Charles Booth noted it served the area’s poorer citizens.^[3]

As the century wore on legislation was passed to reduce the number of City churches and after a comparatively short existence^[4] the then Bishop of London authorised the reunification of the two parishes,^[5] the proceeds from the sale going towards the building of St Mellitus, Hanwell.^[6]

References

↑ The nearest modern technology can pinpoint the exact spot is Postcode EC4A 3BA and British national grid reference system TQ313812.
1 2 3 4 Godwin, George; John Britton (1839). The Churches of London: A History and Description of the Ecclesiastical Edifices of the Metropolis. London: C. Tilt. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
↑ B246 Notebook: Church of England District 1 (The City)Published in 3rd series - Religious Influences. Vol 3. Part 1. Ch.1. Ch.2 Collection- housed at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
↑ Notes on Old City Churches Pearce,C.W.: London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd., 1909
↑ "Ecclesiastical Commission. - Scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for effecting an Union of the benefices of Holy Trinity, Gough Square and St Bride, Fleet Street. - London" : London(H.M.S.O.), 1906.
↑ "Victoria County History: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3" Reynolds,S (Ed): Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer Ltd1962 ISBN 978-0-7129-1034-7

Churches in the City of London

Existing churches	All Hallows-by-the-Tower All Hallows-on-the-Wall City Temple Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe St Andrew, Holborn St Andrew Undershaft St Anne and St Agnes St Bartholomew-the-Great St Bartholomew-the-Less St Benet, Paul's Wharf St Botolph, Aldersgate St Botolph, Aldgate St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate St Bride, Fleet Street St Clement, Eastcheap St Dunstan-in-the-West St Edmund, King and Martyr St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate St Giles, Cripplegate St Helen, Bishopsgate St James, Garlickhythe St Katharine Cree St Lawrence Jewry St Magnus the Martyr St Margaret Lothbury St Margaret Pattens St Martin, Ludgate St Mary Abchurch St Mary Aldermary St Mary Moorfields St Mary Woolnoth St Mary-at-Hill St Mary-le-Bow St Michael, Cornhill St Michael, Paternoster Royal St Nicholas, Cole Abbey St Olave, Hart Street St Paul's Cathedral St Peter upon Cornhill St Sepulchre-without-Newgate St Stephen Walbrook St Vedast alias Foster Temple Church

Churches of which only the tower remains	All Hallows, Staining Christ Church, Greyfriars St Alban, Wood Street St Alphage London Wall St Augustine, Watling Street St Dunstan-in-the-East St Martin Orgar St Mary Somerset St Olave, Old Jewry

Churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished	All Hallows Bread Street All Hallows Lombard Street All-Hallows-the-Great St Antholin, Budge Row St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange St Benet Fink St Benet Gracechurch St Christopher le Stocks St Dionis Backchurch St George Botolph Lane St Katherine Coleman St Mary Aldermanbury St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street St Matthew Friday Street St Michael Bassishaw St Michael, Crooked Lane St Michael Queenhithe St Michael-le-Querne St Michael Wood Street St Mildred, Bread Street St Mildred, Poultry St Stephen Coleman Street St Swithin, London Stone

Churches destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt	All Hallows Honey Lane All-Hallows-the-Less Holy Trinity the Less St Andrew Hubbard St Ann Blackfriars St Benet Sherehog St Botolph Billingsgate St Faith under St Paul's St Gabriel Fenchurch St Gregory by St Paul's St John the Baptist upon Walbrook St John the Evangelist Friday Street St John Zachary St Laurence Pountney St Leonard, Eastcheap St Leonard, Foster Lane St Margaret Moses St Margaret, New Fish Street St Martin Pomary St Martin Vintry St Mary Bothaw St Mary Colechurch St Mary Magdalen Milk Street St Mary Mounthaw St Mary Staining St Mary Woolchurch Haw St Michael-le-Querne St Nicholas Acons St Nicholas Olave St Olave, Silver Street St Pancras, Soper Lane St Peter, Paul's Wharf St Peter, Westcheap St Thomas the Apostle

Other former churches	College of Minor Canons Holy Trinity Gough Square Hospital of St Thomas of Acre Old St Paul's Cathedral St Audoen within Newgate St Augustine Papey St James Duke's Place St Martin Outwich St Mary Axe St Nicholas Shambles St Peter le Poer

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Holy Trinity Gough Square

History

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