Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Church.
Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pediment-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Holy Trinity, Dunkeswell
- OS grid reference
- ST 142 107
- Coordinates
- 50.88963, -3.22014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built in 1842 on the site of the former Dunkeswell Abbey Church. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble with Hamstone dressings and has a slate roof. The church was built to a single-phase plan, designed in a Transitional style, and includes a nave with a narrow south aisle, a chancel, and a west end porch and vestry.
The exterior features a continuous roof over the nave and chancel. Gable ends have shaped kneelers and coping; the east end has an apex cross, and the west end gable is topped by a stone polygonal bellcote with corbels, a steeply-pitched, spire-like pyramid stone roof and an apex cross. Angle buttresses mark the corners. There are five lancet windows under a continuous hoodmould on the north side and four on the south side. The west end porch has a two-centred arch with a moulded surround, a hoodmould, and block labels, flanked by double lancets, with an oculus above in the gable.
Inside, the south doorway is a two-centred arch with a double-chamfered surround. The nave has an open, four-bay roof with arch-braced trusses springing from stone corbels carved with armorial devices. A tall chancel arch has a chamfered surround. The four-bay arcade has octagonal-section columns with capitals carved with stiff-leaf decoration. The walls are plastered, and the floor is tiled, featuring a collection of medieval encaustic tiles from the old abbey church within the sanctuary. A reredos features a Gothic-style Beerstone blind arcade. The fittings include a plain oak altar rail, pulpit, lectern, and prayer desk, all with simple Gothic ornamentation, as well as pine benches. A Norman-style Beerstone font has a large octagonal bowl with a band of fret pattern. No memorials are present, but an ancient stone coffin, possibly belonging to the abbey founder, William Lord Brewere who was buried in 1226, was discovered during the church's construction. Painted commandment and prayer boards are also present. The glass is original.
Local climate
Church of 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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