Bournemouth (Holy Trinity)

Trinity, 161 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth

Church built 1868-9 (tower 1878) in Italian Romanesque style, designed by Cory & Ferguson of Carlisle, deconsecrated in 1973, burnt down in 1979. Described in the listed buildings schedule as "Italian Romanesque of dignified and impressive character: red brick, vitrified blue brick bands emphasising plinths and connecting alternating red and blue voussoirs of windows, roofs of patterned tiles. South-west campanile, almost detached." Now the site of a hideous office building, unimaginatively called "Trinity."

Sources:

• Pevsner, N. and Lloyd, D., The buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, p. 126.
• British Listed Buildings Website: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-101802-church-of-the-holy-trinity-including-tow

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Maintained by Michael Day, Last updated: 22 June 2012.