Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1979. A C19 Church.
Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- western-portal-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1979
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Street, Morecambe
- OS grid reference
- SD 439 646
- Coordinates
- 54.07461, -2.85757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is a church built in 1841 by Edmund Sharpe, with a south aisle added in 1866. It is constructed of squared coursed sandstone and features a green slate roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave, a south aisle, and a lower chancel. On the north side, there is a transept with a lower vestry positioned at the angle with the chancel. A short gabled projection and a lean-to porch are located at the south side between the main church and the chancel.
The tower rises three storeys and is supported by clasping buttresses and corner pinnacles. It has a pointed west doorway and three narrow lancets above it. The tower also features clock faces on the west and south sides, and the bell openings are designed as triple stepped lancets, with the parapets forming a triangular shape above. The north wall of the nave consists of six bays separated by buttresses, with paired lancets, while the south wall has seven bays with windows of two pointed lights topped by foiled circles, and the parapet rises to form a gable over each window. The east window is composed of five lancet lights, with the tall central light flanked by foiled circles.
Inside, the church has exposed bolted queen post trusses that are ceiled at collar level. The south wallplate is supported by a seven-bay arcade of slender timber octagonal columns with caps and bases, featuring curved braces that rise to the plate. The west gallery has a panelled front and houses an organ that appears to have a 20th-century casing with re-set Royal arms. The chancel, which may have been built after the nave, features a pointed sandstone arch flanked by narrower arches and an open timber roof with collars and arch-braced tie beams.
Local climate
Parish Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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