Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- standing-steel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Lane, Rainow, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 951 759
- Coordinates
- 53.28079, -2.07469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity, built in 1846 by Samuel Howard of Disley for the Church Building Society, is a Grade II listed church. It features coursed buff sandstone blocks with hammered dressings, a Welsh slate roof, and a stone ridge. The church consists of a nave, a short chancel, and a west tower. The 4-bay nave is divided by buttresses and has 2-light lancet windows with Y-tracery. The angle buttresses at the ends are topped with heavy pinnacles. The chancel also has angle buttresses and a 3-light window, while the tower is flanked by low staircase towers. The tower includes a rebated 4-centered arched doorcase with a label mould on carved head corbels, a Y-traceried west window with a clock, and 3-light louvred bell openings above. The top of the tower is embattled with pinnacles at the corners.
Inside, the porch features a pair of curving stone staircases leading to the west gallery. The broad nave contains a complete set of pine box pews, and the chancel arch is supported by short engaged columns resting on stone corbels.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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