Lenton Times

The Magazine of Lenton Local History Society

Holy Trinity Church viewed from the south shortly after it opened in 1842.  The Mansfield branch railway line at the bottom of the graveyard has yet to be built.

This photograph shows a view of Holy Trinity taken from the graveyard which originally featured on an undated picture postcard possibly published in the early 1920s.

The southern aspect of Holy Trinity Church, taken from within the graveyard in August 2001

A gathering of the Lenton Mothers Union taken in 1947 drawn from Holy Trinity and its three daughter churches.  The ladies with their banners are lined up on the pathway from Church Street leading up to the north porch.

The Ball family plaque positioned on the exterior wall at the south west corner of the church.  If you click on this photograph a large version of the photograph is loaded on to your computer enabling you to read what is written there.

A view of the interior of Holy Trinity Church looking from the nave towards the chancel which was taken in the mid 1860s.

One of the glories of Holy Trinity Church is this Norman font which was once to be found in Lenton Priory. This and the next two images are taken from picture postcards of the font published in the late 1920s.

Each of the cards shows a different face of the elaborately carved font.  This one shows the Crucifixion with a Roman soldier piercing Christ's side with his spear as the soul of the penitent thief is consumed by a large dragon.

This side of the font is divinded into four separate panels.  The top two feature the Resurrection of Christ while the bottom two depict the three Marys with a view of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on the right.

Inside Holy Trinity Church during the 1971 wedding of Christine Pawlina and Jeffrey Hill with Graham Hill, the best man, to their right.

After the wedding ceremony Jeffrey Hill and Christine Pawlina moved into the vestry in order to sign the marriage register with the Rev. R.G. Dunford in attendance.