Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- final-timber-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Smethwick MP: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Holy Trinity, Trinity Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 020 885
- Coordinates
- 52.4948, -1.97133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built between 1887 and 1889 by Francis Bacon of Newbury. It incorporates elements from a previous church constructed in 1838 by Thomas Johnson of Lichfield, including the tower and spire. The building is made of punched sandstone ashlar with some limestone dressings and imitation slate roofs. It features a west tower with a spire, a nave, and a chancel under a continuous roof, along with north and south aisles that have pitched roofs.
The west tower has clasping buttresses and a pointed west doorway with a lancet window above it. Each side of the tower has two lancet bell openings, and the spire is set back behind a parapet. Both aisles have a west window with four lights and Geometrical tracery. The aisles contain paired lancet windows with buttresses between the bays; the north aisle has five bays and a doorway to the right of its eastern bay, while the south aisle has four bays and a gabled porch to the left with a pointed doorway. The east window of the north aisle features a triple stepped lancet above a lean-to vestry, and the east windows of the south aisle and chancel have Geometrical tracery, with the south aisle window having three lights and the chancel window having six lights.
Inside, there are five-bay arcades supported by round piers with foliated capitals and pointed arches. The two western bays on each side are filled with late 20th-century concrete block walls, and the west end of the nave is partitioned to form a foyer. The main nave roof trusses include tie-beams, arch-braced collars, king-posts, and central vertical iron rods, while alternate trusses feature scissor-braced collars. The moulded pointed chancel arch is supported by clustered columns.
Local climate
Church of Holy Trinity receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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