Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite

Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite
Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite, from the south
Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°21′18″N 3°11′16″W / 54.3549°N 3.1878°W / 54.3549; -3.1878
OS grid reference	SD 229,961
Location	Seathwaite, Cumbria
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Holy Trinity, Seathwaite
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	25 March 1970
Architect(s)	Paley and Austin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1874
Specifications
Materials	Slate
Administration
Parish	Broughton and Duddon
Deanery	Furness
Archdeaconry	Westmorland and Furness
Diocese	Carlisle
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Tony Adams

Holy Trinity Church is in the village of Seathwaite, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of four other local parishes. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The church was built in 1874 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin. Holy Trinity was built on the site of an earlier church. For 67 years the curate of that church had been Rev Robert Walker, who was made famous by the poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth called him "Wonderful Walker", and made reference to him in his Duddon Sonnets and in the poem The Excursion. It was paid for mainly by the industrialist H. W. Schneider.

Holy Trinity is constructed in coursed slate rubble and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave and chancel in one range, with an organ loft and vestry to the north, and a south porch. At the west end is a gabled bellcote. All the windows are lancets. There are wide buttresses externally between the nave and the chancel. A stone is attached to the porch incorporating a sundial; this had formerly been the shearing stool of Rev Walker.