Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Holy Trinity Church
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Locality
- Greenfield
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28939, -3.21015
- Cadw reference
- 502
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set in small churchyard near NE end of Greenfield; E end faces main road.
History
Begun 1870 by Ewan Christian, the well known church architect; cost ú2200. Chancel added 1910-11 by John Douglas, architect of Chester; cost ú1000. Early English Gothic.
Exterior
Comprises nave with lean-to S aisle and stepped down chancel with vestry. Rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof with cresting and gabled bellcote to E end of nave. Low gabled S porch; near E end of the aisle is a gabled organ chamber with stepped 3-light window and blocked arch on E face indicates the more ambitious chancel that Christian planned. Stepped 3-light chancel windows; dated inscription. Alternating N side windows. Grander 5-light W window with tall central lancet.
Interior
An arcade with cylindrical piers and square uncut capitals; arched brace roof with stone brackets. 2-order chancel arch and canted boarded chancel ceiling. Gothic furnishings and painted reredos.
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent ecclestical building in the Greenfield area designed by architects of national significance.
Nearby in the register
- BetneaDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Valley LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Abbey HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The SurgeryHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.