Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. Church.
Holy Trinity Church
- WRENN ID
- empty-attic-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Holy Trinity Church, Church Lane, Elvington
- OS grid reference
- SE 701 474
- Coordinates
- 53.91868, -0.93395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Trinity Church is a church built in 1877 by William White, designed in the early 14th century Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of coursed sandstone with brick interior dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The church includes a northwest tower with an entrance, a four-bay nave with a north aisle, a chancel with a five-sided apse, and a north vestry.
The tower is stepped and consists of three stages, with a plinth and quoins. On the ground floor of the north side, there is a pointed plank doorway beneath a hoodmould. The windows are lancet-shaped, and there are four ashlar bands present. The upper stage of the tower is topped with a shingled belfry and a tent roof.
The nave features a north aisle and a plinth. The second and fourth bays have two-light, cusped windows with quatrefoils above that project into gables, while there is a similar smaller three-light window. Above the sill level, there is a band. On the south side, there is a plinth, quoins, and buttresses with offsets. This side has two four-light windows and one two-light window, all featuring Geometrical tracery under hoodmoulds. The west end has a similar four-light window that incorporates Y-tracery. The north facade has a gable-ended vestry with a plinth and quoins.
An original drawing by White, dated December 15, 1874, shows a slightly different design with a central tower.
Local climate
Holy Trinity Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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