Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
502
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/08/1991
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991
Name of Property
Holy Trinity Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Holywell
Town
Locality
Greenfield
Easting
319427
Northing
377619
Street Side
Location
Set in small churchyard near NE end of Greenfield; E end faces main road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
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.
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