Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1993. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- south-lancet-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1993
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 952 060
- Coordinates
- 53.55062, -2.07387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built in 1847 by E H Shellard, with a tower and spire added later. It features coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof adorned with ridge cresting. The church is designed in an Early English style and includes a two-stage west tower with a tall lower stage and clasping buttresses. The west door is detailed with shafts and deep moulding, and above it is a triple lancet window followed by a quatrefoil. The upper stage of the tower has paired bell chamber lights, a corbel table, and a brooch spire with lucarnes.
The long nave consists of six bays and has lean-to aisles separated by buttresses. It features a continuous sill band and heavy unmoulded blocks between the windows, which may be unfinished corbel heads. The cornice and overhanging eaves enhance the structure's profile. A gabled north porch with shafts leads to the doorway, and the clerestory windows are trefoiled and divided by pilasters. The lower chancel has stepped lancets in the east window, which is topped by a continuous hoodmould, and there is a gabled vestry to the north of the chancel.
Inside, the nave arcade comprises six bays with clustered banded shafts and roll moulded capitals. Stumpy wall shafts support a cambered truss and collar roof with king posts, and the ceiling is painted. The west door is single chamfered, with paired lancets above that now light the base of the tower. The chancel arch features shafts as responds, with a painted text above the archway. The chancel was refitted in 1884, showcasing encaustic tiles and a painted panelled ceiling, along with a wood traceried reredos.
The church contains stained glass in all the principal windows, including one in the south aisle by Capronnier dated 1892, and another unsigned but similar in style from 1880. There are two windows by R.B. Edmondson of Manchester from 1880 and 1897, and the east window, designed in a medieval style, dates to 1871. The north aisle windows include one by Mayer and Co. of Munich from 1906, a window by Reuban Bennet of Manchester from 1904, and another by Heaton Butler and Bayne from 1906.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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