Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. Parish church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-bronze-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1966
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Main Street, Walton
- OS grid reference
- ST 461 363
- Coordinates
- 51.12356, -2.77105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church built in 1866 by architect John Norton, with carved work by Seymour of Taunton. The church is constructed from squared rubble with freestone dressings and features many two-stage buttresses with offsets. The roofs are tiled, showcasing fishscale banding and crested ridges, while the aisle has a lean-to slate roof. The building has coped verges with cruciform finials.
Architecturally, the church exhibits a blend of Mannered Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. It includes a three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, lancet windows in the bell chamber, and a clock on the north face. A pyramidal slate roof was added in 1886, complete with a weathervane. The nave has three bays, with two and three-light windows featuring flowing tracery and labels, some adorned with foliate stops or heads. The west window has four lights and ball-flower decoration. The two-bay chancel matches this style with two-light windows and a three-light east window, along with a priest's door. The three-bay aisle has three-light windows with four-centred heads.
Inside, the church has a lofty interior decorated with overpainted polychromatic banding in brick, tile, and encaustic tile pavements. The nave features a wagon roof, while the aisle has a lean-to roof supported by foliate corbels. The chancel has a collar-beam roof with cusped struts. A three-bay arcade leads to the aisle, supported by four-shafted columns. The chancel arch is chamfered and decorated with ball-flower motifs.
Notable interior features include a recumbent 14th-century figure in the aisle, two Jacobean chairs, an altar table, a chest from the 18th century, and an elaborate font with detached marble shafts gifted by the Thynne family. There is also a stone pulpit, a brass and wood altar rail, and a fine altar table in the Early English style. The church contains three wall monuments, one made of brass, and has a bell dating from 1637.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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