Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1960. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
former-iron-solstice
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Lane, Rangeworthy, BS37 7ND
OS grid reference
ST 686 862
Coordinates
51.57422, -2.4536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church located in Rangeworthy. It dates back to the 11th century, with alterations made in the 15th century and further extensions and restorations completed in 1851. The building is constructed from rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate roof that has weathered, coped verges, cross finials, and a stone ridge.

The church consists of a nave, a south porch, a north aisle, a chancel, and a north vestry. It has been extensively restored and is primarily in the Perpendicular style. The nave includes diagonal buttresses and has a heavily restored two-light west window, which is situated below a corbelled, octagonal bell-turret. This turret has alternate cusped openings between jamb-shafts and a conical cap. Flanking the gabled south porch are two three-light square-headed windows under labels. The porch itself features a moulded, barely pointed arch with a drip mould, a tiny cusped west light, and a plain two-light east window. The doorway has jamb shafts with scalloped capitals and a plain tympanum, which is topped by double chevrons and pellet moulds. To the right of the doorway is a pointed piscina beneath a frieze, and there are plain oak benches inside.

The north aisle has three windows similar to those in the nave and a grotesque gargoyle at the junction with the nave. The chancel is lower than the nave and has two two-light windows flanking a priest's door, all under labels. The east end features a three-light window like that of the nave's west end. The adjoining flat-roofed north vestry has a two-light east window and a north door corresponding to the south doorway.

Inside, the chancel arch exhibits features similar to those of the south doorway but on a larger scale. The chancel contains two piscinas, one of which dates from the restoration while the other is older. The church has a three-bay arcade with crude wave and shaft designs. Notable fittings include a chamfered square font that may originate from the 13th century, and a half-octagon, corbelled stone pulpit from the 15th century, which has cusped panels and a foliate frieze, accessed from the vestry via altered rood stairs. There is also a freestone memorial tablet on the external wall of the nave, which is now illegible.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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