Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Church.

Church of Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
patient-ashlar-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
Church
Address
Church of Holy Trinity, Dunnerdale-With-Seathwaite, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 229 961
Coordinates
54.35492, -3.18776
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built in 1874, funded by H.W. Schneider. It is constructed from coursed slate rubble and features a slate roof. The building consists of a single vessel nave and chancel, with a north organ loft and vestry. The south elevation has four plain unchamfered lancet windows and a wide buttress between the nave and chancel. The gabled porch includes a pointed arch and angle buttresses, with a flat rough stone attached that once served as a shearing stool for Rev. Robert Walker, who was the curate for 67 years and was made famous by Wordsworth as 'Wonderful Walker'.

On the north elevation, there are three lancets for the nave, along with a gabled organ loft and a flat-roofed vestry with coping. The west end features two lancets and a gabled outhouse with a pointed entrance and a gabled bellcote. The east end has three stepped lancets, a vestry entrance, and a leaded casement window.

Inside, the church has a simple design with a scissor rafter roof that includes ashlaring and a double-chamfered chancel arch. There are Georgian royal arms, a holy water stoup set into the wall, and the chancel features an arch leading to the organ loft, along with the Ten Commandments painted on the wall and some stained glass. A brass plate, re-set from a gravestone, commemorates Rev. R. Walker (died 1802) and his wife, Anne (died 1800).

Local climate

Church of Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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