Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hammer-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Road, Nettleden with Potten End
- OS grid reference
- TL 017 089
- Coordinates
- 51.76989, -0.52732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a chapel-of-ease that has served as a parish church since 1895. It was designed around 1864, with the contract dated March 9, 1865, and was licensed for services in September 1865, before being consecrated in 1868. The porch was added in 1908. The church was designed by F.C. Penrose for Earl Brownlow, with construction carried out by builders T. & J. Mathews and William Nash for a cost of £710.
The church is built of plum brick with red brick and stone dressings, topped with steep red tiled roofs. It has a small T-plan layout, featuring a semi-circular apse, a south porch, a north vestry, and a bellcote on the west gable. It is described as being in the Italian Norman style, with round-arched windows, stilted three-light windows lighting the nave, and single lights elsewhere, along with triplet windows at two levels in the ends of the transepts. There is a blue brick chamfered course at the plinth and a red brick corbel table at the eaves level, which continues across the faces of the gables. The gables are finished with red brickwork and stone copings topped with crosses.
The west gable features a two-stage bellcote with a mid-wall shaft leading to the lower opening. Inside, the church has a plastered interior over a boarded dado and an open timber roof supported by arch-braced collar-trusses made of pine. The apse has a plastered round-arch with chamfered imposts. Three stained glass windows in the apse were presented by Lady Marion Alford for the church's opening. The interior includes simple oak fittings, with one choir stall and a lectern made by Thompson of Kilburn, known as the 'mouse-man'. The south door is elaborately designed and protected by a later matching porch. The original bell was replaced by three bells in 1927. Additionally, war memorial tablets have been inserted externally in the south gable of the south transept.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity 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 78% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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