Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- shifting-postern-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Howgill Lane, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 633 950
- Coordinates
- 54.34954, -2.56504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church built in 1838 by Edmund Sharpe. It is constructed of mixed random rubble with sandstone dressings and features a graduated slate roof. The building is small and designed in a simple Early English style, consisting of a nave with a short chancel.
The west front is gabled and symmetrical, featuring three windows and narrow diagonal buttresses. It includes a two-centred arched doorway with a chamfered surround, a hoodmould, and double doors, flanked by a lancet window on each side and another above the doorway. There is also a gable bellcote. Both the north and south sides have six windows, each with one buttress between the first and second windows. These sides feature tall lancet windows with chamfered reveals, diamond leaded glazing, and hoodmoulds. The chancel, which is slightly lower than the nave, has one similar window on each side and a stepped triple-lancet window on the east side.
Inside, there is a west gallery over the internal porch, box pews, and a panelled font in the Early English style. The church is situated in a picturesque location in a valley beside a beck.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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