Holy Trinity Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1961. Graveyard.
Holy Trinity Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- burning-corridor-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1961
- Type
- Graveyard
- Address
- Holy Trinity Parish Church, Aberystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 587 816
- Coordinates
- 52.41464, -4.07861
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Holy Trinity Parish Church is a Grade II listed building designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It features a five-bay chancel constructed from bull-nosed rubble masonry with freestone dressings, including quoins, a plinth band, and stringcourses. The chancel has a blind traceried parapet and an east gable end, along with stepped buttresses. The west gable is topped with a crucifix finial, while others are broken. The church has slate roofs with tiled cresting, an eaves band, and a pyramidal roof on the tower.
The nave is adorned with three-light ogee double cusped windows that include transoms and hoodmoulds, and the northwest window is shortened above a pitched roof porch with a 4-centred Tudor arch, accessed by steps from an iron gated entrance. The west front features a shortened window above paired larger windows that have more elaborate tracery and stilted hoodmoulds, along with a central canopied niche. The plain tower faces are complemented by transepts that have quatrefoil attic lights in square recesses above five-light transomed windows. The chancel has two-light windows with hoodmoulds and a five-light east window beneath a four-light louvred attic with an ogee head.
Internally, the church showcases similar masonry, hammerbeam roofs, and crenellated wall plates with shields. Panelled tracery crosses arches with polygonal bases, and similar flind tracery is present over linenfold panelling on the east wall. There are vacant canopied niches in the chancel, as well as sedilia and a double cusped piscina. The church also features Gothic metalwork reredos, a polygonal font, and a pulpit.
Local climate
Holy Trinity Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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