Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1964. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
idle-plinth-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1964
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Street, LS26 0QN
OS grid reference
SE 343 283
Coordinates
53.75004, -1.4811
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church that was largely restored or rebuilt in 1873 by C. R. Chorley, although it retains some late medieval elements. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features slate roofs, except for the porch. The church is designed in the Perpendicular style and includes a west tower, a nave with north and south aisles, and a chancel.

The three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses and a two-centred arched west doorway with two orders of hollow chamfer and a hoodmould, above which are studded double doors. There is a 19th-century recessed three-light window with tracery above the doorway, and the belfry windows consist of two cusped lights. The tower also features a cornice on a corbel table and an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles, along with a clock face on the south side.

The five-bay nave has square-headed recessed clerestory windows, each with two cusped lights, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. The four-bay south aisle includes a gabled porch at the second bay that protects a late-medieval moulded inner doorway with a massive studded double-layer oak door, along with large two-centred arched three-light windows that have Perpendicular tracery. The four-bay north aisle, which has a pitched roof, features similar three-light windows, although the middle pair lacks tracery. Both aisles are supported by buttresses and have embattled parapets with crocketed pinnacles. The two-bay chancel has a large east window with five cusped lights and Perpendicular tracery.

Inside, the church features 19th-century arcades with double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns. The chancel arch has clustered shafts, and the tower arch is adorned with three orders of chamfer. The nave ceiling is late medieval, constructed from massive moulded beams with carved bosses. The font, dated 1662, has an octagonal bowl on a fluted pedestal, with panels lettered in relief. It is accompanied by a 17th-century spire-shaped font cover with carved openwork panels. Additionally, there is a marble monument with effigies to Mary Anne Faviel, created in 1942 by J. Towne, located at the west end of the north aisle.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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