Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- rough-terrace-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Holy Trinity, Traverse Street, WA9 1NR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 522 954
- Coordinates
- 53.4533, -2.72097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built in 1857 by W. and J. Hay, with an apse added in 1883-1884 by J. Gandy. It features rubble walling made from industrial waste with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The church has a nave with a south porch, transepts, and an apse. The nave consists of three bays with two-light windows situated between weathered buttresses. The west end includes angle buttresses and a three-light window with simple, intersecting tracery, which has likely been altered, as well as a bell cote. The gabled south porch features an arch without capitals. The north transept has a four-light segmental pointed window, while the south transept has a three-light window similar to that at the west end. The canted apse contains three two-light windows and a north organ loft. Inside, there is a deep west gallery, and the roofs are supported by arch-braced collar trusses with flying arches at the crossing. This church is notable as one of only two buildings in St. Helens constructed entirely from industrial waste, likely sourced from local chemical works.
Local climate
Church of Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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