Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. A Medieval Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- winter-rood-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Chilton Trinity
- OS grid reference
- ST 296 391
- Coordinates
- 51.14745, -3.00719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church located in Chilton Trinity Village. It was established in the 13th century, with the earliest recorded incumbent dating back to 1309. The church was rebuilt in the 15th century and underwent restoration in the 19th century. It is constructed of blue lias and red sandstone rubble, with freestone dressings and a double Roman tile roof, showcasing a Perpendicular architectural style.
The church features a nave with a south porch, a chancel, and a west tower. The embattled tower is three stages high, with diagonal buttresses, prominent gargoyles, and a stair turret. It has single two-light bell chamber windows, a three-light west window, and a ribbed and studded west door, both adorned with labels and carved head stops. The nave consists of two bays, while the chancel also has two bays, with predominantly two-light windows, each light featuring a foiled head and foliated spandrels inside and out. Some windows have 18th-century iron casements, and there is a three-light east window.
The mouldings of the pointed arch door opening of the south porch and the tower arch are characteristic of the 15th century, with the latter being shafted. The south door opening has a simple four-centred arch and a 15th-century ribbed and studded door. The chancel arch is much mutilated but retains some keel mouldings. The nave and chancel have 19th-century wagon roofs, with the chancel being unceiled. The 15th-century ringing-chamber floor is present in the tower, and there is a lower entrance to the rood loft. A piscina with a foiled head is located in the chancel.
Inside, the church features 19th-century fittings, including pews, a lectern, an organ, and an altar rail. There is a 15th-century octagonal font with a Jacobean cover, a Jacobean pulpit, a small table, a splat-back chair, and two coffin stools from the 18th century. Memorial tablets are dedicated to Gilbert Marshall from 1787 and Susanna Graham from 1785. The church has historical ties to the Hospital of St John in Bridgwater, which served it from 1219.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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