Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II* listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1968. A Victorian Church.

Holy Trinity Church

WRENN ID
waning-keep-plover
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1968
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Holy Trinity Church, South Street, Leven
OS grid reference
TA 106 452
Coordinates
53.89149, -0.3177
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holy Trinity Church is a church built between 1843 and 1844 by architect R D Chantrell, with a parish room added in 1998-99 by Ferrey & Menim. The church is designed in the Early English style and constructed from gritstone ashlar and re-used limestone, topped with slate roofs.

The building features a three-stage west tower with an attached octagonal stair turret on the south side, a four-bay nave with a south aisle, and a south porch, along with a two-bay chancel. The west tower includes a plinth, buttresses with offsets, and paired lancets in the belfry under a hoodmould with floral stops. It has a corbel table and a low coped parapet, and a flagstaff is present. The nave has a plinth and buttresses with offsets, with two lancets on the east side, each under a hoodmould with face stops to the west and floral stops to the east. The south porch features a pointed door of two orders, with the inner order on nook-shafts, under a hoodmould with foliate stops, and a coped gable topped with a flory cross finial. The transepts have north and south windows of paired lancets with hoodmoulds featuring foliage and face stops.

The chancel includes a plinth, buttresses with offsets, and lancets with hoodmoulds that have face stops to the west and foliated stops to the east. It also has a pointed priest's door with a continuous hollow chamfer and an east window of three stepped lancets under a trefoil light in the gable, which has a raised coped gable and a flory cross finial.

Inside, the church has a re-used medieval nave arcade featuring four pointed double-chamfered arches on quatre-foil piers with filleted rolls. There is a re-used square 13th-century font on a central cylindrical pier surrounded by four colonettes; the font is decorated with paired trefoil-headed blank arches with foliage in the spandrels on three sides, and a central trefoil-headed blank arch flanked by blank lancets, all with foliage in the spandrels. The interior also includes a re-used medieval north transept arch and piscina. At the east end of the nave, there is a fragment of a pre-Conquest cross-shaft with interlace on three sides, while the fourth side is damaged or unfinished. An early 19th-century hatchment is also re-sited within the church. R D Chantrell incorporated much of the medieval fabric from St Faith's Church Hall Garth, which was dismantled in 1843-44.

Local climate

Holy Trinity Church receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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