Holy Trinity Church and Bell Tower

I hope these two images add to this thread. They were taken in May 2005

Can't find enough words to thank you ALL for the beautiful photos.

Just realised that I have never been inside Holy Trinity.

Hi all, A very sweet organ in there too. ps. Please give us a hint if you intend to visit, Annewiggy. Top secret, of course. ps. Just chat I auditioned for membership of a cinema organ society many years ago, & one of my party pieces was "Bats in the Belfry". What fun! That was at the one time Napton Nickelodeon, where the organ was set to play four strikes per second on the xylophone. That is many times faster than a competent xylophone player. It produced a perfect squeaky sound of bats. It took many hours of practise & I am sure that I would not be able to play that piece now, no matter how I rehearsed. It's the speed that makes it very difficult to play.

Hi NeilsYard, To my embarrassment, I learnt only in the last couple of years that the only bells from Holy Trinity are electronic, sounding through speakers. They have no mechanical bells.

I'm with you on that one Anne. I had never been inside Holy Trinity either until the Heritage weekend in September last year

I went to a Christmas Carol service there a few years ago as one of my wife's teaching colleagues sang there. It was truly magical Here's another stunning image of the ceiling from the Warwickshire Bells site here!

Another question. Does anyone have information on the graves at Holy Trinity? It seems many of my relatives were married there (including myself) and I have heard a Sarah Pickering or a Sarah Waggstaff is buried here. Sarah Pickering was christened here I have been told but not sure of the exact year, 1800s

The burial registers are at Warwick but Coventry has copies. Parish Register Copies held at Coventry Archives.

If you look at B-M-D's on this site you will find "Monumental Inscriptions for Coventry Holy Trinity - List of names taken from the fiche of Monumental Inscriptions for The Holy Trinity Church in Coventry", Fiche number I102 sold by BMSGH Sadly, neither name you are looking for appears on this list

On Ancestry there are 2 Sarah Wagstaffs listed in the burials for Holy Trinity. One from Coundon buried 14 Feb 1815 aged 65 and the other 22nd Oct 1815 aged 76. This is for 1813 to 1910. I can't see any Sarah Pickerings.

Many thanks. Think I must be looking for Sarah Wagstaff. Where do you think she could be buried in Holy Trinity if there is no headstone?

Hi all Meeting up with my forum pal last Tuesday, I learnt that the pipe organ in Holy Trinity had long-gone. Replaced by a digital. I went along to have a look today. I have learnt today that the church has received a grant towards the cost of a new pipe organ. I have no idea of if or when, but that is the latest on that. Holy Trinity is to the left off this picture. The picture shows the library & a Cov single decker, possibly on route to Berkswell, as well as the iconic temp shops which included Lyons cafe. The aircraft hanger looking building to the right of the library, was in use as a temp M&S store for quite a while. Walking from Holy Trinity, I went past what used to be the Gulson Library. Memories of my school homework days as most of my homework was completed in there, before I ever reached home. Most days, in good weather, I walked from school, did my homework before then walking on to my mum's shop in White St, where I then had a lift home. In her Ford Pop, but by then, which was after six, no one from the grammar school was around to see me. I didn't mind being seen when in one of my dads fine motors, but my mum's pop, lost me all credibility at school.

Hello everyone, A first post for me following many months perusing this very interesting site. I'm particularly interested in this photograph as my father is pictured on the back row. Although the photo pre-dates me by a couple of years, my father remembers Duffield (and many others in the photo) and recalls receiving occasional lifts from him to Holy Trinity from the Coat of Arms Bridge Road area.

Heres another interesting view of the Campanile which really defines its location: