Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- still-gallery-kestrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central MP: Gareth Snell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1972
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Hartshill Road, Hartshill, City of Stoke-On-Trent
- OS grid reference
- SJ 865 458
- Coordinates
- 53.00967, -2.20198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built in 1842 by architects George Gilbert Scott and Moffatt. It is constructed of stone and features a plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. The church is designed in the Decorated style and includes a west tower with a spire, a nave with two aisles and a clerestory, and a chancel.
The four-stage west tower has clasping buttresses that end in pinnacles. It features a west door with paired shafts leading to a triple chamfered arch, a three-light window above it, and an oculus. The bell chamber has paired lights, and there is a trefoiled frieze below the parapet. The spire has two tiers of lucarnes, and the south porch has shafts leading to a moulded arch that is repeated on the inner doorway.
Inside, the nave consists of four bays divided by gableted buttresses, each with a two-light traceried window. Corbels support a projecting parapet, and there is a low clerestory above with quatrefoil windows. The chancel is ornate, featuring shafts with foliate capitals and hoodmoulds on the windows.
The interior includes a high arcade of five bays with clustered shafts that support a rib vaulted ceiling. It has encaustic floor tiles throughout, a tiled dado with a high glazed frieze, and quatrefoil memorial tiles inset. The original pews have poppy-head bench ends, and there is a deep-moulded chancel arch. A wooden reredos with interlace in the panelling and riddle posts serves as a war memorial. The chancel has a painted panelled ceiling and a vaulted roof over the apse. The stained glass in the chancel is in an early medieval style, featuring small lozenges with scenes, while the south aisle contains Mannerist style glass from 1902-1904.
The church was endowed by Herbert Minton.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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