Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- solitary-glass-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Main Street, Rathmell
- OS grid reference
- SD 804 599
- Coordinates
- 54.03509, -2.30002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built around 1840, with a chancel and vestry added in 1883 by F Healey of Bradford, along with 20th-century alterations. It features slobbered rubble construction with millstone grit dressings and a Westmorland slate roof. The church has a south porch, a three-stage west tower, a three-bay nave, a south vestry, and a two-bay chancel, all designed in a lancet style.
The porch, added in 1897, has a segmental pointed arch entrance with engaged pillars, two-leaf plank doors with strap hinges, and a trefoil in the gable topped with a cruciform finial. The west tower has a blocked entrance with a chamfered surround to a segmental pointed arch, a hoodmould with pendant stops, and a string course at the second stage. It features a two-light window with Y tracery and a hoodmould with head stops, along with a string course at the bell stage and a lancet window partly obscured by a clock face. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and finials.
The nave contains three lancet windows with hoodmoulds and a corbel table. The south vestry was extended in 1912 and has a west entrance and a two-light window on its gabled south side. The chancel features a three-light east window with a segmental pointed hoodmould and a two-light window on the north side, along with a corbel table and cruciform finials at both the east and west ends.
Inside, the nave has scissor-braced roof trusses and a segmental pointed chancel arch. There is a piscina and two sedilia with trefoil cusped arches, and an oak reredos from 1908 designed by F Healey. Some 19th-century windows were made by Capronnier of Brussels.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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