Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Church.
Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- distant-eave-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Holy Trinity, Church Lane, Buckminster
- OS grid reference
- SK 889 215
- Coordinates
- 52.78446, -0.68244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Holy Trinity is a former chapel of rest that now serves as a parish church. It was built in 1842, designed by A. Salvin, and is constructed from coursed and squared ironstone and limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The church is designed in the Romanesque Revival style, featuring a chamfered plinth and an impost band. The windows are adorned with diamond glazing.
The building has a projecting western bellcote, with the nave and chancel covered by a continuous roof. The west end features a central projecting bellcote with three stages, a string course with masks at the corners, and a central roll-moulded round-headed doorway that has a plain hood mould and shafts with scallop capitals. The doorway is fitted with a studded two-leaf plank door that has scrolled hinges. On either side of the doorway are round-headed windows, each with a hood mould and shafts with scallop capitals, and above these is a similar central window. At the top, there is a single bellcote with a chamfered round-headed opening and a coped gable with kneelers.
The nave and chancel consist of four bays, each corner featuring a shallow clasping buttress and coped gables, with the eastern gable topped by a cross. Each side has four round-headed windows with hood moulds and shafts with scallop capitals. The east end is distinguished by two larger round-headed windows with linked hood moulds and shafts with scallop capitals, and above these is a round window.
Inside, the church has a wooden draught screen and a kingpost roof with collars and wall shafts. Notable fittings include a rectangular open-backed alabaster pulpit with pointed blind arcades and marble shafts, a 19th-century font with a stepped square base, round foot and stem, and a bowl shaped like a scallop capital. There is also a traceried wooden reading desk that is integral with the altar rail, a 17th-century carved panel back armchair, and plain stained pine benches. The church features boards displaying the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed, as well as a re-set marble war memorial tablet from 1919.
Local climate
Church of Holy Trinity 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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