Holy Trinity Church, Hastings

Holy Trinity Church
The church from the southeast
50°51′18″N 0°34′36″E / 50.8551°N 0.5767°E / 50.8551; 0.5767
Location	Robertson Street/Trinity Street, Hastings, East Sussex
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	1851
Founder(s)	Countess Waldegrave
Dedication	Holy Trinity
Consecrated	1858
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	14 September 1976
Architect(s)	Samuel Sanders Teulon
Style	Decorated/Early English Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1856
Completed	1859
Administration
Province	Province of Canterbury
Diocese	Chichester
Archdeaconry	Hastings
Deanery	Rural Deanery of Hastings
Parish	Hastings Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in the centre of Hastings, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex. It was built during the 1850s—a period when Hastings was growing rapidly as a seaside resort—by prolific and eccentric architect Samuel Sanders Teulon, who was "chief among the rogue architects of the mid-Victorian Gothic Revival".^[1] The Decorated/Early English-style church is distinguished by its opulently decorated interior and its layout on a difficult town-centre site, chosen after another location was found to be unsuitable. The church took eight years to build, and a planned tower was never added. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.