Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. A C19 Church. 4 related planning applications.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
last-sill-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Boston
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1975
Type
Church
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Spilsby Road
OS grid reference
TF 333 447
Coordinates
52.98376, -0.01511
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church dating to 1846-8, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, with a 1988 addition by John Webster of Leeds. The church is constructed of limestone ashlar with a Westmorland slate roof, and has a western lobby addition in artificial stone. A flat-roofed extension with a parapet, built in 1988, connects the church to a 20th-century church hall.

The church is executed in the Decorated Gothic style. The plan comprises a nave with clerestory, aisles, transepts, and a south-west porch. The western elevation has a window of four lights with reticulated tracery, a small bellcote, and angel corbels. A 1920s choir vestry has been incorporated into the lobby entrance. A pair of three-light windows with trefoiled ogee heads are present. The aisles have a plinth, parapet, stepped buttresses, and three two-light ogee-headed windows.

The transepts feature offset buttresses, cross fleury gables, and four-light pointed windows with flowing tracery. The gabled north vestry contains a traceried two-light pointed window and an ogee-headed doorway. The east gable and north side of the chancel feature two-light flowing traceried windows, and the east end of the nave has a five-light flowing traceried window with angled buttresses and griffin head carvings. The nave clerestory includes four circular windows with trefoils or quatrefoils. A slightly later gabled south porch features a double-chamfered door with a hood and side lights.

Inside, the four-bay nave arcade has octagonal piers and capitals adorned with ball flower motifs and stiff leaf carving. Double-chamfered pointed arches are present, along with responds with half-octagonal corbels. The roof is of crown post construction with braces to tie beams on carved stone corbels. Arches lead from the aisles to the transepts, and from the nave to the transepts. A tall, moulded pointed tower arch features decorated capitals and angel supporters to the corbels.

The furnishings include an octagonal 19th-century carved font, a stone pulpit with panelled traceried sides, a contemporary carved altar rail, and a reredos.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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