Nottingham Holy Trinity

Glass

Chancel

East window

The east window
in the 1920s.

Two pairs of tall lancet windows. Each pair with a quatrefoil filling the arches all below an eight petal rose light. All glazed with stained glass.

The window measured 21 feet 6 inches high at the apex and 16 feet 3 inches wide at the sill. It was presented in 1873 by John Smith Cottman as a memorial to his daughter.

A newspaper report from November 1873 on the reopening of the church after restoration includes a description of the window:

'[It is] filled with beautiful stained glass by Heaton, Butler, and Byron, of London ... [and] is geometrical in pattern, with the symbols of the four Evangelists, flowers and conventional ornaments in panels.'

North and south walls

Two single lancet lights on the both north and south walls.

In 1920 the glazing of three of these lights was replaced by memorials.

One signified ‘Hope’ and bore the inscription:

To the memory of the men connected with
The Parish or Church who fell in the
War 1914-1918

Another depicting ‘Faith’:

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
Lay down his life for his friend
St. John XV 13

The third was dedicated to a former incumbent who served the parish 1870-1884, the Rev. J. A.  Smith. He was later Dean of St. David’s Cathedral and died in 1918.

Moreover it is required in a steward that a man
be found faithful.
1. Corinthians IV.2

The fourth was from an earlier period 1900 and was a memorial to the wife of the above Charlotte Isabella Smith. It showed 'Charity' and cost £25.

Nave

Five sets of triple lights were located on each of the south and north walls. Each light set between the buttresses. The centre light was taller than those that flanked it. It was also wider being three feet compared to the outer lights at one foot six inches.

East wall of the nave

On the south side of the chancel arch at the level of the balcony, a pair of equal height narrows lancets with leaded lozenge glazing.

North side

At the level of the balcony a single narrow lancet light

West tower

A large widow was set in the west wall within the ground floor area. Details are not definable from the images available.

Entrance porch, north west corner

A tall window almost filling the west wall. Details not definable from images available.

When the church was demolished in 1956 a local newspaper reported that all the glass was 'spoken for by other churches' but there are no details of where it was reused.

Five sets of triple lights each set between a pair of buttresses. The centre light was taller than those either side and was 3 feet wide with the side lights 1 foot 6 inches wide.

West wall

A large light, under the tower, but the details are not definable from surviving images. There was also a single lancet window in each of the west walls of the nave.