Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Church.

Church of Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1990
Type
Church
Address
Church of Holy Trinity, Urswick
OS grid reference
SD 301 745
Coordinates
54.16197, -3.07183
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Holy Trinity is a church built between 1843 and 1853 by G. Webster. It is constructed of dressed stone with a rock-faced stone base, ashlar dressings, and a slate roof. The church features a nave with a north vestry, an east apse, and a west tower topped with a spire. The five-bay nave includes weathered buttresses and a corbel table, along with 2-light traceried windows and a sill course. The gabled south porch has clasping buttresses and a pointed entrance with a niche above it. The north vestry is similar in style and has a chimney designed as an open pinnacle at the gable end. The canted apse has a battered base, nook shafts, and a Lombard frieze, with three traceried lights. The tower is supported by angle buttresses and has a 2-light west window. The lower part of the spire is splayed and features 2-light windows, while the upper part slopes at a shallower angle and includes lucarnes.

Inside, there is a chancel arch with responds, and the apse contains nook shafts and a ribbed ceiling. The apse windows feature good 20th-century stained glass by Wilhelmina Geddes from 1955, while other windows include 19th-century glass, some by Shriggley and Hunt. The church has an octagonal stone font, original pews—some with poppy heads—and a pulpit with arcading on the sides, along with an arcaded chancel rail. The church stands as a prominent landmark on the coast of Morecambe Bay.

Local climate

Church of Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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