Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A Victorian Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- frozen-iron-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Front Street, Wingate
- OS grid reference
- NZ 400 371
- Coordinates
- 54.72774, -1.38025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built between 1840 and 1841 by George Jackson of Durham. It is constructed from hammer-dressed limestone with mainly rendered sandstone surrounds and features Welsh slate roofs. The church is designed in the Early English style and has an aisleless nave, a west porch, and a south-west choir vestry, along with a chancel that includes a vicar's vestry to the north.
The nave consists of four bays and has a continuous chamfered plinth, a sill band, and clasping buttresses on both the east and west sides. The north and south walls have buttressed recessed bays with single lancets and corbel tables. At the west end, there is a gabled porch featuring a restored pointed outer arch, bold dogtooth decoration, and single colonettes. Flanking lancets are set in recessed wall panels, with a gabled bellcote above. The roof is steeply pitched with coped gables. The choir vestry has three renewed fixed lights, while the lower and narrower three-bay chancel has a chamfered plinth and sill band, stepped at the east end, with three lancets in the south wall. The east end, which has clasping buttresses, features three renewed stepped trefoil-headed lancets under a slightly-ogival hoodmould, and the roof is also steeply pitched with a coped gable. The vicar's vestry includes a pointed-arched doorway to the east and a single lancet to the north.
Inside, the church is unplastered. The nave roof features seven combined king-post and scissor-braced trusses resting on eaves corbels with bowtell moulding. The chancel arch is worn and double-chamfered, supported by similar mid-wall corbels. The nave contains three ranks of mid-19th century pews, and there is a painted Caen-stone font with an octagonal bowl supported by five colonnettes, said to be inspired by a design of Chantrey. The chancel includes early 20th-century panelling and stalls. A First World War memorial east window, created by William Glasby of London, depicts the Crucifixion along with Saints Cuthbert and George.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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