Holy Trinity Church

Holy Trinity Church was the second church to be built in Tottenham and it was consecrated as Holy Trinity Chapel on 26 May 1830. The Anglican church was built between 1828 – 1830 funded through public subscription and a Parliamentary grant. The church, designed by James Savage, was one of a number of ‘Commissioners’ Churches’ built as a result of the Church Building Act 1818 and related acts. It was modelled on King’s College chapel, Cambridge.  Holy Trinity  was assigned a district chapelry from the parish of All Hallows, Tottenham in December 1844.

This chapel may rank among the best structures in the pointed style which we met with in the course of our surveys.
E.I.C, Gentleman’s magazine July 1831

BG Windus and his father, Edward, were associated with the founding of the chapel which faced their house.  BG Windus donated the carpets and other furnishings and his father, Edward, gave the cloth for the communion table.

The memorial to Mary Windus, BG Windus’s first wife who died shortly after the birth of their daughter, Mary, in 1830, has reappeared in the church - it is not known when the memorial reappeared, but it appears to have been missing for some years.
(A letter from A C Townsend, Librarian at the British Museum in 1957 noted that: the present vicar says that ‘a marble monument to Mary Windus was placed to the South of the altar’ is not there now). 

The memorial was carved by Edward Hodges Baily who was the sculptor of the statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square.

Mary Windus memorial seen to the right of the altar

Mary Windus memorial

There is also a memorial plaque to BG Windus who died on 8 July 1867 in Tottenham and is buried in Rodmell, East Sussex.

For information on the church today go to: www.holytrinitytottenham.org

The exhibition Behind Sacred Doors: 700 years of Art, Crafts & Architecture from Haringey churches which was held in Bruce Castle in 2015 features several of the Church of England churches in Tottenham and Hornsey to see the film which accompanied the exhibition click here.