1904 – Holy Trinity Church, Shirebrook, Derbyshire

The first church in Shirebrook was designed by William Patterson and Thomas Chambers Hine of Nottingham and constructed around 1843. It was extended with the construction of a new taller nave to the designs of the architect Hedley John Price. The old church building then became the south aisle, and is shown in grey on the plan above. Grade II listed.

“It was intended by the previous vicar of Shirebrook to add to the existing church a north and south aisle, and to enlarge the chancel, which would have added 160 more sittings : but upon the present vicar, the Rev. Edward Braddon, being appointed to the benefice in the early part of this year, the original scheme was abandoned, and a more adequate scheme prepared for a new church to be built on the north side of the existing one, utilising the present church as the south aisle of the proposed church. The accommodation provided, including the present church, which seats 150, will be a total of oGS, allowing 20in. each person. The plan accompanying the view explains the general arrangement. The wall stone is the gift ot the contractor for the G.N. Leen Valley extension to Langwith Junction, Jtr. W. H. Hutchinson, but all the labour and cartage has to be addel. It is proposed to face the inside walls and all jambs and arches to windows and the arcade arches in Aincaster stone ; window-sills and copings, and buttress weatherings to be in white Mansfield stone. The floor will be in pitch-pine wood blocks. Tenders have been obtained for the first section — the nave and north aisle. The cost is about £2,000 ; the complete building will cost £4.000. The architect is Mr. Hedley J. Price, A.R.I.B.A, of Low Pavement, Nottingham.