Wedding of Jane & William

Wedding of Jane & William

Trinity's closure was marked with a final marriage ceremony
  • What holy trinity church activities archive
  • When 20 Mar, 1976 from 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM (UTC / UTC0)
  • Where Holy Trinity Church
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Holy Trinity Church, c1970, photographer unknown

The last marriage service was held in the Holy Trinity Church - the marriage of William J.J. Ballard to Jane H. Dix.

This was the last recorded in Trinity's marriage certificate stubs (no. 427). This was also confirmed in a small evening post article on the same day.

A 'service of praise' is recorded on 14 March, which may in fact have been Holy Trinity's last official service. On 28 March the final service recorded in Holy Trinity's service register was taken by Terence Kelshaw.  There was a morning and an evening service on this day - Mothering Sunday, though the service may have been held at Easton Family Centre due to the Church's closure.

With the final hymn ringing around the almost vacant pews of Holy Trinity, a praise song and a funeral rite calling time on a church once described as 'the Cathedral of the East'.

The music that followed could not have been more different...