Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1961. A Medieval Church.
Holy Trinity Church
- WRENN ID
- rough-finial-smoke
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1961
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Abbots Leigh
- OS grid reference
- ST 544 740
- Coordinates
- 51.46329, -2.65719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican parish church dating to the 15th century. It was restored and partially rebuilt following a fire in 1847-48. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel, and a vestry. It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, with a slate roof to the nave and double Roman tiles to the chancel, all executed in the Perpendicular style.
The west tower has three stages with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet with plain pinnacles. A polygonal stair tower with a spirelet projects at the north-east corner. The tower features a two-light bell chamber opening, a four-light west window, and a west door under a hood mould with carved head stops. The north and south aisles have embattled parapets and two-light windows with cusped tracery. A gabled projecting south porch provides access to the south side. The chancel features a three-light east window, mirroring the design of the south window.
Inside, the south doorway has a moulded surround with fleurons. The three-bay north and south arcades feature piers of engaged shafts alternating with hollows and four-centred arches; the north arcade is a 19th-century addition. A plain chancel arch spans the chancel. The tower arch has a chamfered outer order and a wave moulded inner order. The nave roof is a mid-19th century structure with arch-braced collar beam trusses and three tiers of cusped windbraces, incorporating six-light dormer windows. The chancel roof has an early 19th-century ribbed design. A 19th-century pulpit is present in a Perpendicular style. The font, also from the 19th century and in a Perpendicular style, is constructed of ashlar and is octagonal.
The tower contains a Miles funeral hatchment and a monument to P.J. Miles, who died in 1845, designed by E.H. Bailey. This is a marble, neo-classical monument with an inscribed plinth, flanked by two female mourners (one seated), and displaying the Miles arms. In the nave, there is a monument to Francis Short, who died in 1853, by Tyley of Bristol, featuring an urn on a pedestal and a female mourning figure. The south aisle features a monument to Mark Davis, who died in 1783, a marble plaque with bowed ends and a swan-neck pediment, and a late 16th century ashlar tomb, thought-to-be of Lady Jane Norton. The chancel contains the monument to Sir George Norton, who died in 1715, a marble, baroque inscribed plaque flanked by Corinthian columns supporting a plain entablature, surmounted by a concave-sided pediment with portrait medallions.
Local climate
Holy Trinity Church receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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