Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 February 1995. Outbuilding.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1995
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Taliaris, Manordeilo and Salem
- OS grid reference
- SN 654 282
- Coordinates
- 51.93609, -3.95922
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built in 1892. It is constructed of rubble stone and features red plain tile eaves roofs, along with a single west bellcote that has ashlar coping and a cross finial. The church includes a nave, chancel, transepts, a west porch, and a lean-to south vestry. Red terracotta gable cross finials are present on the church and the porch. The windows are in the Perpendicular style, with two plain flat-headed cusped two-light windows on each side of the nave, traceried three-light segmental-pointed windows with hoodmoulds in the transepts, and a four-light window at the east end. The west porch has a Tudor-arched entry and two small lancet windows. The west door is made of hollow-moulded red stone, featuring a Tudor arch, a hoodmould, and stops.
Inside, the nave roof is supported by scissor rafters and five arch-braced trusses on corbels, while the chancel roof is boarded with a brattished wall-plate. The windows have red sandstone reveals. The east end has an encaustic tile step and 1939 linenfold panelling, with the east window featuring glass from 1939 by Powell of Whitefriars. There is a plain octagonal stone font supported by four marble shafts.
Memorials within the church include a very fine white marble sarcophagus on lion feet dedicated to Lady Anne Seymour (died 1804) and signed by Nollekens, along with numerous 19th and 20th-century memorials to the Peel family and a plaque for Lord Robert Seymour (died 1831). A fine Baroque cartouche commemorates David Gwynne (died 1721). The north transept contains a plaque noting the enlargement and building of the vestry in 1829. A board from 1723, repainted in 1821, records that the church was built around 1660 by William Gwynne, with the cross aisle constructed by Roland Gwynne.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Trinity sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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