Holy Trinity Church was a now demolished church in the village of Thorpe Thewles, County Durham, England. It was built in 1848–49 to replace an isolated church on a different site which had been dedicated to Thomas à Becket. The Thomas à Becket church is now in ruins and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is also a scheduled monument. Holy Trinity Church was designed by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley at an estimated cost of £600, and could seat 175 people. It measured by but by the 1880s it was suffering from decay and damp, and was demolished. It was replaced on the same site in 1886–87 by the present church, dedicated to St James. This church is a Grade II listed building. See also List of works by Sharpe and Paley References External links Ground plan of the church Churches completed in 1849 19th-century Church of England church buildings Sharpe and Paley buildings Former churches in County Durham Grade II listed buildings in County Durham 1849 establishments in England