Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1998. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Holy Trinity Church
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Luton
- Constituency
- Luton North MP: Sarah Owen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1998
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Road, LU3 1TR
- OS grid reference
- TL 075 238
- Coordinates
- 51.90286, -0.43744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church dating to 1867-8, with minor alterations in the late 20th century. It was designed by T. Nicholson of Hereford. The church is constructed of yellow brick with red brick banding, red sandstone dressings, and a Welsh slate roof with coped gables. It follows a linear two-cell plan, comprising a three-bay nave and nave belfry, a two-bay chancel, a north porch, and lean-to vestries to both the north and south sides. The architectural style is Early English Gothic Revival.
The west gable features a tall two-light window flanked by stepped buttresses, and above this, a gabled ashlar belfry containing two bells. Stepped corner buttresses are present. The north wall has a gabled porch with late 20th-century glazed doors featuring intersecting tracery. A two-light window is located to the west of the porch, and a three-light flat-headed window to the east. A lean-to vestry features an angle buttress and a single cusped lancet window to its side wall, along with a single doorway and stepped approach. The east end has clasping buttresses and a three-light window with a cinquefoil head.
The south side includes a two-light window to the east end, followed by a lean-to vestry with a doorway and two shallow three-light windows above a brick band. There are two two-light windows to either end of the nave wall, and a central flat-headed three-light window with cusped arched heads to its lights, supporting quatrefoils. The arched openings have hood moulds with head stops.
Inside, the chancel is three bays, and at the west end is an octagonal font on a stepped plinth. A heavily carved semi-circular pulpit features a carved head, positioned to the right side of the chancel arch. A full set of plain benches lines either side of the central aisle, and a braced collar roof has diagonal underboarding. A tall pointed chancel arch springs from foliated capitals to short coupled shafts. The organ is housed within the chancel, with a contemporary organ casing and choir stalls. The stalls to the north side are set in front of a double arched access to the vestry, featuring an Aberdeen granite pillar on a Bath stone base and cap. A low altar rail is supported by braced iron posts. Encaustic patterned tiles cover the chancel and sanctuary floors and the east end wall behind a curtain. Sedilia, an aumbry, and a doorway to the south vestry are located on the south side wall. Stained glass windows are present in the east and west windows (dated 1918), the nave and chancel window (1919), and the pulpit window (1920). The patron of the church was John Sambrook Crawley of Stockwood, and his image is believed to be depicted on the pulpit.
Local climate
Holy Trinity Church 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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