March 2021
When I was a boy in the early 1960s, Bingley Holy Trinity Church was a big, proud building that dominated the surrounding streets and terraces. Unfortunately, during the building of the church in the second half of the nineteenth century, there was serious settlement. In the early 1970s serious cracks began to appear and the spire was scaffolded. Then, on the 7 April 1974, Palm Sunday, the church and spire were demolished by explosion. It was replaced by the present church on the same site.
There is much more information on the Bingley Holy Trinity Website. Thanks to Fr. Andrew Clarke, Vicar of Holy Trinity Bingley with St Wilfrid Gilstead for allowing me to use the photos from the website
Holy Trinity 1894
Holy Trinity Bingley
1960s Interior
Holy Trinity with scaffold
Demolition
Holy Trinity Present Day
