Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-forge-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Street, Coleford, BA3 5NG
- OS grid reference
- ST 686 489
- Coordinates
- 51.23931, -2.45036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church built in 1831 by J. Sperring. It features ashlar stonework with slate and asbestos slate roofs, coped verges with pinnacles, and a cruciform finial. The church is designed in a Perpendicular style and has a broad nave with aisles, a short chancel, and a west tower that includes single-storey flanking rooms, one serving as a vestry and the other as a store or churchroom.
The slender tower has battlements and is composed of two stages, with diagonal buttresses that rise to pinnacles. It includes two-light bell-chamber windows with stone grilles and a two-light west window. The nave has four bays with two-light windows, and there is an embattled gabled south porch with a pointed-arch door opening, featuring 20th-century doors and a traceried transom, along with traceried inner doors. The chancel is blank on the north and south sides and has a three-light east window.
Inside, the church has a plastered interior with 19th and 20th-century wall monuments. The nave ceiling features a moulded cornice and a moulded central rib. There is a stone reredos with inscriptions, and the Perpendicular style stone pulpit and font are likely from 1831. The church also contains a late 19th-century organ and benches, as well as late 19th and 20th-century stained glass. Notably, the bell is said to have come from Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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