Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A C12 Church.

Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England)

WRENN ID
dusted-barrel-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England), Babbs Green, Wareside
OS grid reference
TL 394 159
Coordinates
51.82461, 0.02231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity, a Church of England building, was constructed in 1841 by Thomas Smith, with a polygonal vestry added around 1900. It is built of yellow brick with stone dressings and has slate roofs. This small church is designed in the 12th-century Italian Romanesque style, featuring an apsidal chancel that is hexagonal on the outside, wide transepts with galleries, an unaisled nave, a vestry, and a vaulted crypt beneath the eastern parts. The galleries are accessed by staircases located in the angles between the nave and transepts, with the northern staircase leading up to an octagonal bell turret.

The west gable entrance is stone and round-arched, adorned with dogtooth carving, and there is a Romanesque wheel-window above it. The church has narrow round-headed windows and consistently employs dogtooth round arches in the interior, visible on wooden pew ends, gallery fronts, and the internal porch. There is a Romanesque-style wooden organ case with battlements, nook-shafts, and zig-zag ornamentation in the apse. The crossing arch features corbels and cushion caps, and the walls are decorated with painted texts. A flared stone font rests on short columns with scalloped cans. The church also contains Victorian stained glass and a Puginesque brass memorial in the chancel dedicated to Rev H H Coddington from 1845.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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