Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Church entrance.
Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church
- WRENN ID
- old-stair-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Church entrance
- Address
- Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SU 998 495
- Coordinates
- 51.23606, -0.57074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance walls and railings to Holy Trinity Church were constructed with a central gate in 1712 and outer gates in 1813. The structure features a brown brick retaining wall with cement-rendered end piers that are panelled and topped with gables. Above this, there are wrought-iron gates and railings. The plinth retaining walls are approximately 1.5 metres high, with gate piers at the ends that rise to about 3.5 metres. The stone coping on the plinth walls supports spear-finialled railings, which include scrolled standard panels at intervals along the front.
At the east end of the church, paired gates lead to a flight of steps, adorned with scrolled work beneath a central finial and return railings that connect to the church wall. The central double gates facing the High Street are elaborate, featuring urn finials on flanking scroll work standards and twisted finials on scrolled crests atop each gate. There is also a further gateway at the west end of the church, which is under a scrolled and arched overthrow with a central lantern. Brick piers at the ends of the railings flank the steps leading up to the west end of the church.
Local climate
Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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