Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 1994. Church.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
rooted-transept-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 1994
Type
Church
Address
Church of the Holy Trinity, Rhyl
OS grid reference
SJ 009 814
Coordinates
53.32096, -3.48816
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a 19th-century building constructed from roughly squared random rubble and topped with slate roofs. It features an aisle-less nave flanked by long transepts and a short chancel, all designed in the Perpendicular style. The west entrance has a plain chamfered shallow projecting panel with a 4-centred arched doorway. Above the doorway, there is a four-light window with a trefoil, and a bellcote sits on the gable above. The nave and transepts each have three-light windows, and the north transept includes a porch with a chamfered 4-centred arched doorway. The chancel has a five-light east window, which was extended to the south in 1869 with a narrow vestry addition under the main roof, and to the east in 1891. The vestry and the north wall of the chancel also have three-light windows. Many of the windows, particularly in the original parts of the church (nave, chancel, and first bays of transepts), feature cast-iron latticed glazing instead of leading.

Inside, the nave consists of three bays and has a braced king-post roof with rafters. The transepts have similar roofs and have been subdivided by timber screens to create separate rooms at the north and south ends. The chancel boasts an encaustic tiled floor, a plain panelled reredos from 1891, and pictorial stained glass by Ward and Hughes dating from 1879 and 1881.

Local climate

Church of the Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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