Holy Trinity Church, Lawrence Hill

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Holy Trinity Church

Shown within Bristol
Town	Bristol
Country	England
Coordinates	51°27′29″N 2°34′34″W / 51.45798, -2.57597Coordinates: 51°27′29″N 2°34′34″W / 51.45798, -2.57597
Architect	Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson
Construction start date	1829
Completion date	1832

Holy Trinity is a church in Lawrence Hill, Bristol, England.

It was built between 1829 and 32 by Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson. Later work in around 1882 was by John Bevan and in 1905 by William Venn Gough. Since it became redundant as a church in the late twentieth century, and owing to a covenant protecting its use for 'youth, community, and arts' it has been run by a variety of collectives, as a community center and music venue.

As a music venue it hosted many famous artists notably from the punk, and reggae genres, and was an important landmark in the globally exported 'Bristol sound', during the 1990s.

The center is currently run by Trinity Community Arts as a community arts centre, and is continuing in its tradition as a Bristol music venue, as well as providing recording and broadcast studios, and training around media arts. The centre runs almost entirely upon Free software and is committed to spreading adoption of these technologies.

The building has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.^[1]