Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. A Medieval Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- other-spindle-fog
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Ash Priors
- OS grid reference
- ST 151 294
- Coordinates
- 51.05839, -3.2117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed church located in Ash Priors, dating from the 15th century, with a south aisle added in 1833 and restoration completed in 1874. It features red sandstone random rubble masonry and slate roofs, with a 19th-century tiled chancel. The church has a two-bay aisled nave, north and south aisle chapels, the latter of which contains the organ and has been extended by one bay to include a heated vestry.
The west tower is three stages high, crenellated, and topped with a pyramid slate roof and weather vane. It has diagonal buttresses and a square-headed Tudor arch doorway adorned with floral decoration in the spandrels, dating to the early 19th century. The tower also features a 4-light cinquefoil perpendicular window and 2-light bell openings with Somerset tracery, along with a higher crenellated square stair tower at the southeast corner. The late 19th-century gabled porch has three light trefoil-headed perpendicular windows.
Inside, the church has rendered walls and standard perpendicular arcades with wagon roofs. Notable features include an ogee-headed hagioscope, floor tiles in the chancel, a polychrome marble 3-bay crocketed reredos with finials, painted and gilded wooden altar rails, a polychrome marble pulpit with a cast iron and brass handrail, and an octagonal font, all part of the 1874 restoration.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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