Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Church.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
stony-outpost-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1975
Type
Church
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Trinity Street, Taunton
OS grid reference
ST 235 244
Coordinates
51.01433, -3.09103
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican church located on Trinity Street in Taunton, built in 1842 by Richard Carver of Taunton and refitted in 1882. It is designed in the Perpendicular style, featuring a Decorated style east window. The exterior is constructed of pale ashlar, with a nave that has a projecting chancel. The building is topped with battlements and has pinnacles at the corners. It includes pointed two-light windows with large transoms to accommodate galleries inside, and the windows are separated by buttresses. The church has a prominent west tower with set-back buttresses and an openwork parapet, although the pinnacles are missing.

Inside, the church features a single-span tie-beam roof adorned with elaborate tracery above the tie-beam. There is a gallery on three sides with a Gothic panelled front supported by cast-iron clustered columns. The gallery contains box-pews, while the rest of the seating was replaced in 1882. A tall pointed chancel arch leads into the chancel, and there is a fine organ located at the west end of the gallery, built in 1845 by William Hill. The east window contains stained glass.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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