Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- sunken-bastion-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1972
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury, Halford Road, Ettington
- OS grid reference
- SP 266 490
- Coordinates
- 52.13909, -1.61135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury is a church constructed between 1902 and 1903, designed by C Ford Whitcomb. It is built of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, and has tile roofs. Wide eaves, flush quoins, coped gables, and a stone internal stack are visible.
The plan incorporates a 3-bay nave with a north-east vestry and a south porch, a 2-bay chancel, a north-east tower, and a south chapel. Windows feature Perpendicular tracery. The chancel has a gable cross above a 3-light window, with a foundation stone dated 1902. The north and south sides each have two 2-light windows, straight-headed and traceried.
The 3-stage tower includes a diagonal buttress dated 1909, an octagonal stair turret to the west angle, a 2-light double-chamfered-mullioned window to the east, a similar 4-light window to the north, a double-chamfered light on three sides of the second stage, paired 2-light traceried and louvred bell openings with inscriptions from the Te Deum on lozenge panels, a partly pierced panelled parapet, and a recessed lead-clad superstructure.
The chapel has a 2-light straight-headed and traceried window to the east and west. A south entrance features a double-chamfered opening, flanked by straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights. The nave has gable crosses, offset buttresses, and straight-headed and traceried windows. The vestry’s north gable has an entrance and a window of 2 cusped lights, with a double-chamfered cusped light above, and a window of 3 cusped lights to the west. The south side has windows to the east of a pointed entrance with continuous mouldings and paired plank doors, flanked by a gabled porch with enriched open timber-framing on low stone walls, and a bronze sundial on a buttress. Lead rainwater heads and downspouts are also present.
The interior is reported to contain a late 18th-century pulpit from the former Church of St Thomas a Becket, and wall monuments dated 1784 and 1801. The church replaced the Church of St Thomas a Becket, built between 1798 and 1913, of which only the tower remains.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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