Our Church Building

Holy Trinity Church is an early Victorian Grade II* listed building located at the west end of Trinity Street to the extreme west end of Frome on high ground about 15 minutes walk from the town centre. The church was commissioned and built as a chapel of ease to the Frome Parish Church of St John, financed by public giving by the large working populace of the Trinity area (or St Katherine's Manor as it was then known), between 1835 and 1838. The architect was H.E.Goodridge of Bath. The church was consecrated on St Matthew's Day, Sept. 21st, 1838, by Bishop Law, Bath & Wells. The brief of the first vicar, The Rev. Alfred Daniel was to "be for the poor and to live with the poor", and by 1844 Holy Trinity became a parish in it's own right. Alfred Daniel remained as vicar until his death in 1875.

Architecturally the building, which under went major renovation in 1891, has a simple grandeur, particularly when viewed from its churchyard. Unusually the front of the church is east facing with the chancel and altar at the west end of the nave. The Lady Chapel is in the north transept which was built in the 1850s

One of the chief treasures of Holy Trinity is its collection of stained glass windows produced by the firm of Wm. Morris & Co. to the designs of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and erected between 1876 and 1918. There is also a pair of oil paintings "The Entombment" and The Crucifixion" after Rembrandt, donated by a local artist, Henry Thomas Ryall who became "Portrait and Historical Engraver" to Queen Victoria.

The building attached to the south side of the church, Trinity Hall, Grade II listed, was originally the church school, built and extended between 1840 and 1890.

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