Holy Trinity Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 1967. Church.

Holy Trinity Parish Church

WRENN ID
worn-rampart-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 1967
Type
Church
Address
Holy Trinity Parish Church, Aberaeron
OS grid reference
SN 457 627
Coordinates
52.24129, -4.2608
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Holy Trinity Parish Church is a Grade II listed building featuring a nave with a slightly lower chancel, a southeast chapel, and a three-storey southwest tower. The church has slate roofs adorned with ridge cresting, and its walls are constructed of bull-nosed rubble with freestone dressings and gable parapets, along with band courses on the west front. The tower is highlighted by an openwork parapet and octagonal corner pinnacles, topped with a weathervane on an ironwork stand. It includes angle buttresses, string courses, and 2-light plate tracery windows, which are louvred at the bell stage and feature hood moulds.

The entrance is through an L-shaped lobby porch at the base, accessed via a pointed arch doorway that showcases dog-tooth moulding and cushion capitals. The west window consists of four lights with quatrefoil and sexfoil oculi, while a rosette roundel is set into the gable. The east window is a five-light design that combines Geometrical and Perpendicular styles, and there are 2-light windows on both the north and south sides.

Inside, the church has a five-bay aisless nave with an open arched braced roof supported by foliated corbels. There is a pointed opening leading into the southeast chapel, and the chancel arch is adorned with a hood mould and short marble shafts, featuring foliated capitals and stops. The three-bay chancel has a boarded and ribbed timber roof. The church contains Gothic fittings and stained glass from the apse that has been reused in the north wall of the chancel.

Local climate

Holy Trinity Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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