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Holy Trinity, Newcastle-under-Lyme, is an oddity designed by the Rev James Egan. Egan was not, according to Nikolaus Pevsner in the first edition of Staffordshire, ‘a connoisseur of the Gothic style, but he had the right ideas’.
His only building, relentlessly faced in blue vitrified brick, will always be remembered ‘with an affectionate smile’.
It is homely, cheerfully amateurtheatrical and no preparation for what was, but is no longer, to come just a mile or so east. There, from the top of ‘the bank’, one could see the Potteries laid out in fiery sublimity: hundreds of bottle kilns
