Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 December 1995. A Medieval Church.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- twisted-spire-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1995
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Gwersyllt
- OS grid reference
- SJ 316 535
- Coordinates
- 53.07475, -3.02212
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building constructed from coursed and squared tooled stone, topped with slate roofs. It features an aisle-less nave and a tower with a spire located at the northeast corner, adjacent to the chancel. To the south, there is a lower gabled vestry wing that balances the tower. The west end has clasping buttresses and a two-light plate-traceried window with shafts in the outer moulding. The south porch is decorated with shafts and nail-head motifs on the arch moulding, and has heavy coped gables. Broad lancet windows are connected by a continuous sill band between the buttresses, and there is a corbel table adorned with carved heads. The southeast vestry has a Y-traceried window, while the chancel features a three-light geometric traceried east window with shafts in the outer moulding. The three-stage tower includes a two-light window in the lower stage facing east, a trefoil above it, and three foiled lights in the bell chamber. There is a doorway in the north wall and a canted stair turret in the northwest angle.
Inside, the nave has five bays with arched braced trusses that spring from corbels, supporting a collar that holds short cusped braced king-posts. It also has three tiers of purlins with ogival wind-braces and a plain double chamfered chancel arch. The fittings include a font with a clustered shaft and stiff-leaf capitals supporting an octagonal basin. The pulpit, located to the south of the chancel arch, features trefoiled panels on shafts and is likely contemporary with the church. The pulpit's design is echoed in the reredos, which has wood panelling replacing earlier painted zinc decoration from 1970, as well as in the communion rail and altar frontal. The nave seating and choir stalls also appear to be original, with the choir stalls featuring traceried frontals and poppy-head bench ends. The chancel is adorned with encaustic tiles and a painted text above the east window, along with an illuminated commandment board that may have been painted on zinc. A finely wrought corona is present in the chancel.
The stained glass includes an east window depicting the Ascension, while the south wall has a series of memorial windows dedicated to members of the Penson family, including Thomas Penson, who died in 1859; all of these are by Wailes. The west window is similar and may also be by him. The northeast window, created in 1897, is by A. Ballantine and Gardiner of Edinburgh, along with two unsigned 20th-century windows.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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