Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Briggate, Knaresborough
- OS grid reference
- SE 350 567
- Coordinates
- 54.0056, -1.46604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity, built in 1866, is a Grade II listed building located on Briggate in Knaresborough. It is constructed from gritstone with a Westmorland slate roof and is designed in the 14th-century Gothic style. The church features a north-west tower, a six-bay aisled nave with a clerestory and a north porch, and a three-bay chancel with a north vestry.
The tower consists of three stages with offset angle buttresses, and it has two and three-light windows along with a tall broach spire that includes lucarnes. The nave's porch is equipped with a double board door that has strap hinges. The aisles contain two-light trefoil-headed windows with quatrefoils beneath hoodmoulds, while the clerestory features three-light windows with shafts and lunettes under triple-headed hoodmoulds. The chancel windows are similar to those in the aisles.
Inside, the church has cylindrical arcade piers with foliate capitals that support double-chamfered pointed arches with head stops to the hoodmoulds. The chancel displays roll-moulding at the window sill level. An elaborate carved and gilded stone reredos features the heads of the Apostles and symbols of the Passion, with the east window flanked by mural paintings of saints and bishops. Additionally, there is a piscina and sedilia located at the east end of the north and south walls.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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