Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of the Holy Trinity

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1985
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Manor Road, Stourpaine, DT11 8TQ
OS grid reference
ST 860 093
Coordinates
50.88366, -2.19992
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church with a 15th-century west tower and a main body of fabric dating from 1858, designed by T.H. Wyatt. The tower is constructed of greensand ashlar, while the rest of the church is built of chequered flint and squared greensand blocks. It has tiled, gable-ended roofs. The plan includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, south Lady chapel, and south porch.

The west tower has three stages with a plinth and embattled parapet, separated by weathered string courses. Diagonal buttresses rise to the tower, and there is an octagonal vice turret to the north. The parapet has gargoyles and crocketted finials. A pointed, three-light Perpendicular window is located on the west side, with a returned label. There is a chamfered octagonal loop window to the second stage, and the belfry stage has two-light, pointed windows with quatrefoils and louvres. The vice turret has an external, pointed, chamfered doorway. The north wall of the nave has three reset, pointed, three-light Perpendicular windows, likely from the 15th century, although the tracery pattern of the easternmost window differs. The west wall of the south aisle has a pointed, three-light window with curvilinear tracery, while the south wall features two and three-light, square-headed windows, also with curvilinear tracery. The Lady chapel has a two-centred doorway, a central three-light segmental-pointed window with curvilinear tracery and a single trefoiled light to the east. The east wall of the chapel contains a graduated triplet of lancets. The chancel has a pointed, three-light east window with Y tracery. The north wall of the chancel has two trefoiled lancets and a pointed door. The south porch is gabled and has a two-centred archway and inner door.

Internally, the nave features a four-bay pointed arcade with two chamfered orders on round piers. The piers have moulded caps and carved respond corbels. The pointed chancel arch is of two chamfered orders, the outer continuous with the jambs and the inner springing from respond corbels. A 15th-century, pointed tower arch of two chamfered orders dies into the responds. The arches to the chapel and between the chapel and chancel are pointed, also of two chamfered orders dying into responds. A continuous string course runs through the chancel. The nave roof is a four-bay structure with arch-braced collar beam trusses, king-posts, and cusped struts. The chancel has a scissor-braced collar beam roof. Other features include a 19th-century octagonal font and an octagonal oak pulpit carved with naturalistic foliage, dated 1914. A monument to John Straight, situated under the tower and dated 1670, includes a kneeling effigy within a niche, flanked by Tuscan columns supporting an entablature. Further early 19th-century monuments are present, along with other largely 19th-century features.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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