Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- north-gateway-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1969
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Matfen
- OS grid reference
- NZ 030 717
- Coordinates
- 55.0403, -1.95369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built between 1841 and 1842, with a tower and spire added in 1853 to 1854. It was designed by and for Sir Edward Blackett and is constructed of ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof, showcasing an Early English architectural style.
The church features a west tower and spire, a nave, a chancel, and a vestry. The west doorway includes a studded door surrounded by decorative ironwork and framed by two orders of columns. The tower is three stages high, with angle buttresses, lancet windows on the first floor, and triple, shafted lancets on the second floor, where the outer lights are blind. The tall broach spire is adorned with lucarnes and an elaborate vane. On the south side of the tower, there are external stone stairs with a solid stone balustrade leading to the bell-ringers' chamber.
The nave has four bays, featuring lancet windows with double-chamfered surrounds set in shallow recesses, supported by close-set moulded brackets beneath the eaves. Buttresses are positioned between the windows, and there is a rose window in the east gable.
The small chancel has two bays, with a priest's door that has a shouldered lintel and lancet windows. The east window consists of three stepped lancets, and the roof is gabled with overlapping coping.
Inside, the chancel wall displays four 17th-century alabaster Baroque panels depicting scenes from the nativity, believed to be of Dutch origin and of very high quality. The interior also features a naturalistic wood eagle lectern, a Gothic wood pulpit, and a brass communion rail.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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