Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield, is in Basingwerk Avenue,

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, Flintshire, Wales (). It is an active

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church in the former parish of Holywell, the Estuary and Mountain Mission Area, the archdeaconry of St Asaph and the diocese of St Asaph. The church was designated as a Grade II listed building on 19 August 1991. The church was built in 1870–71 to a design by Ewan Christian. It consisted of a nave and a south aisle, and had

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s. Christian planned an apsidal chapel and a vestry at the southeast, but these were never built. The church was licensed for worship on 18 October 1871. In 1910–11 the

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architect John Douglas added a chancel in a simpler design. The church was

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on 25 April 1911. The current Vicar of Holywell is the Rev'd Dominic Austin Cawdell OGS.

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Grade II listed churches in Flintshire 19th-century Church in Wales church buildings

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