Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. A Victorian Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- deep-landing-oak
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Whatley
- OS grid reference
- ST 719 470
- Coordinates
- 51.22168, -2.40343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building constructed between 1844 and 1846 by architects George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt, with further work by William George Brown of Frome for James Fussell. It is built from Doulting ashlar and features lead sheeting roofs in a Free Decorated style. The church has a four-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, both adorned with gargoyles and angel figures, some of which hold tools associated with Fussell. The south porch is elaborate, with an ogee-headed outer door opening.
At the west end, lancet windows flank a central buttress that rises to a polygonal bell lantern, which has an ogee-headed opening on each face, topped by a crocketed spire. The nave windows consist of two lights, while the chancel features lancets and an east window with three lights and Geometrical tracery. The chancel includes a south-facing priest's door with an ogee crocketed canopy.
Inside, the church has a plastered interior with a collar beam roof in the nave and a plain wagon roof in the chancel. Notable features in the nave include a re-sited rood screen on the north wall, an octagonal font with crocketed niches, a small organ by Gray and Davidson, and an elaborate stone pulpit. The chancel has a tiled floor, choir stalls with carved misericords, and a reredos with crocketed finials and niches that contain paintings of angels by W.L.T. Collins of Frome. In the north corner, there is a niche that contains the tomb of Jacob Fussell. The east window features glass in a medieval style, while the remaining openings have simple stained glass.
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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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