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The Church of the Holy Trinity was located in Southside Street/Friars Lane, The Barbican, Plymouth. At 11.45am on Tuesday May 26th 1840 a procession of Clergy, Magistrates, members of the Town Council and subscribers was led by the Mayor, Doctor J C Cookworthy, from the Guildhall in Whimple Street to the site for the laying of the foundation stone. This was carried out by the Reverend John Hatchard, the Vicar of St Andrew's Church, who personally raised the funds to build it. The Government gave £1,000 towards its construction. After the ceremony, the Reverend Hatchard was presented with a suitably engraved silver salver, a silver tea service and a a richly bound quarto Bible as it transpired that this was his 47th birthday. The Church was built in stone in the Doric order by Mr Burgoyne and was consecrated in 1842. It consisted of chancel, nave, galleries, aisles, north porch and a tower on the north-west side. The ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity with St Saviour was formed in 1851 from the parish of St Andrew. The vicarage and schools were the work of the Reverend Francis Barnes, incumbent from 1851 to 1904. He died in 1905 and in the following year the Barnes Memorial window was installed on the south side of the Church. A corresponding window in the north side was installed in 1911 along with new choir stalls. The Church of the Holy Trinity was destroyed in the Second World War.
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