Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1967. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-gravel-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Lodge Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 938 164
- Coordinates
- 53.64423, -2.09393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed church located on Lodge Street in Littleborough. It was rebuilt between 1818 and 1820 by Thomas Taylor of Leeds, with the chancel added in 1889 by Crowther. The church features dressed stone and ashlar construction with a slate roof. It has a three-sided gallery plan, a central west tower, and a relatively large chancel.
The five-bay nave includes a weathered plinth and a castellated parapet. Each bay is supported by weathered gableted buttresses that incorporate gargoyles and feature three-light windows with interlaced tracery. The tower, which is flanked by stair bays, consists of three stages with diagonal buttresses. It has a ground-level door, moulded bands, arched openings on the second and third stages, a coped parapet with gabled clock faces, corner pinnacles, and a steeple with lucarnes.
The three-bay chancel is designed in an accomplished Perpendicular style, featuring three-light windows, a priest's door, buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, and a seven-light east window. The chancel roof is steeper and has a higher ridge line than that of the nave.
Inside, the church has a gallery supported by cast-iron columns, arch-braced roof trusses, and a heavily moulded chancel arch. The chancel is lined with red sandstone and features double-hammer-beam roof trusses adorned with angelic minstrels, as well as a piscina and sedilia. The interior also includes timber fittings and stained glass.
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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