Holy Trinity Church

http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Holy-Trinity-Church-Sunderland-Tyne-Wear/

The website above is about the church and shows some images of it.

My research into the church:

Holy Trinity Church is one of Sunderland’s oldest and most significant buildings. Modern-day Sunderland began as a small parish carved out of Bishopwearmouth to serve the soaring population of the East End. Built in 1719, the church would have seemed strikingly modern in its day. It was designed in a Baroque style that was radically different from Sunderland’s earlier churches, which were Saxon and medieval in origin. Even the brick construction was novel in an era when most ecclesiastical buildings were of stone. Holy Trinity was an emphatically modern church for the new township of Sunderland.

Attributed to William Etty of York (c.1675-1734), the church is a compact, symmetrical edifice. A tower rises at the end of the nave, but does not disrupt the simple, rectangular floor plan. The whole is executed in warm red brick made of clay dug from the Town Moor. Dressings of sandstone impart a sense of dignity and align the church with the Baroque style of architecture. Tuscan pilasters are clasped to the façade and the large central door is set within a heavily rusticated arch. The tower is a square structure that originally terminated with a cupola, but now only the four pinnacles at the corners remain. Rusticated dressings strengthen the tower itself. The original short chancel still projects at the rear, but a circular apse was added in 1735.

http://www.sunderlandheritage.org.uk/buildings.php?id=18