Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- north-flint-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Accrington Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 831 326
- Coordinates
- 53.78971, -2.25699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church built between 1835 and 1836 by Lewis Vulliamy for the Church Commissioners. It was enlarged in the late 19th century and became derelict in 1991 due to fire damage. The building was restored and converted into flats in 1993. It is constructed of punch-dressed sandstone ashlar with a slate roof, now featuring skylight windows, and is designed in the Early English style.
The church has a nave with a west tower, a chancel with a north chapel, and a south vestry. The three-stage tower includes clasping buttresses, offset bands between the stages, and an embattled parapet with octagonal corner pinnacles. It features paired two-centred arched west doorways set in a two-centred blank arch, a clock face at the second stage with a diamond-shaped surround, and coupled lancet belfry windows with louvres.
The wide, unaisled four-bay nave has a chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with tall pinnacles, simple buttresses between the bays with two offsets, and a corbel table to each bay. The tall coupled lancet windows have deep splayed reveals, although only remnants of stained glass remain. The chancel consists of two short bays with coupled lancets on the sides and an east window featuring three stepped lancet lights in a two-centred blank arch. On the north side, there is a gabled chapel with a circular window, though the tracery has been destroyed.
The interior has been remodelled but previously included a three-sided gallery supported by cast-iron columns and an open-timbered roof.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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