Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Church.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
rough-remnant-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Blackley and Middleton South MP: Graham Stringer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Cobden Street
OS grid reference
SD 863 019
Coordinates
53.51398, -2.20729
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church built in 1908 by Basil Champneys, although it remains unfinished. It is designed in the Arts and Crafts Gothic style and constructed from bright red brick with some sandstone dressings and a pantile roof. The church features a five-bay aisled nave and a low chancel, which is likely not part of the original design, along with a narthex.

Notable architectural elements include prominent slab-like buttresses that rise above the eaves and are finished with tiled gables. Two of these buttresses at the west end of the south side have tusking for an intended tower that was never built. The west end also has a full-width lean-to narthex that pierces four ramped buttresses over its roof. The pointed arched west window consists of five lights with Gothic tracery made of stone, and there are Gothic niches in the flanking bays. The clerestory windows are five-light, while the aisles have square-headed single lights. A bell turret is situated over the chancel arch.

Inside, the church features giant pointed-arched arcades, each arch enclosing a pair of arches supported by octagonal piers. The aisles are narrow, and the roof is panelled with transverse arches. The chancel arch has been blocked to create a flat east end, and there is a polygonal font.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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