Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Church. 13 related planning applications.
Holy Trinity Church
- WRENN ID
- drifting-crypt-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Road, BS2 0NW
- OS grid reference
- ST 600 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45809, -2.57622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Trinity Church is a church built between 1829 and 1832 by architects Thomas Rickman and Hutchinson, with later work completed around 1882 by John Bevan and in 1905 by W.V. Gough. The church is constructed of Bath stone ashlar and features a slate-roofed nave with leaded aisles. It is designed in the Perpendicular Gothic Revival style, comprising a chancel and an aisled nave.
The church has a small semi-hexagonal apse with pointed windows, topped by a crenellated gabled end supported by angled buttresses and featuring a large Perpendicular style east window. The north aisle consists of four bays, with segmental-headed windows set between weathered buttresses, and a coped parapet that culminates in crocketed pinnacles. An arched doorway is located at the west end, along with two-light clerestory windows. The south elevation mirrors this design.
The west front is notable for its pair of crenellated octagonal towers with openwork tracery flanking three Tudor-arched doorways, the central one being the largest and set within a label mould with chamfered reveals and quatrefoils in the spandrels. Above these doorways is a large five-light window similar to that on the east end, along with a traceried balustrade featuring open merlons and a cross finial atop the gable.
Inside, all fittings have been removed, and a new floor has been inserted near the top of the nave arcade. The interior features a four-bay arcade supported by square piers without capitals and pointed arches, with slender stanchions in between for a now-absent gallery. Stairs lead up from either side of the narthex. Originally an early Commissioners' church, it is now used for community purposes.
Local climate
Holy Trinity Church receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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