Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church with a late 12th-century core, significantly remodelled in the mid-14th century. A north aisle was demolished in the medieval period and rebuilt in the late 19th century, along with the addition of an organ chamber and vestry. The church is constructed of squared stone with dressings; the 19th-century parts are of rough-faced stone. It has slate roofs. The church comprises a two-bay aisled nave with a south porch, a chancel with a south chapel, and 19th-century additions on the north side.

The south porch has a hollow-chamfered pointed arch under a coped gable, with low stone benches and a door featuring keeled mouldings and a hood with rosette stops. East of the porch are two 14th-century windows, each featuring two trefoiled, ogee-headed lights with pierced spandrels under a square head with a hoodmould. A large stepped buttress is located to the east. The west end has a chamfered plinth and large roughly-squared masonry of 12th-century type, along with three 2-light windows and large stepped buttresses – all dating to the 19th century. A coped gable and gabled bellcote are also present. The north wall of the nave is continuous with the organ chamber, featuring four 2-light windows that replicate the design of those on the south wall.

The south chapel has two similar 14th-century windows and a three-light 19th-century east window. The chancel has a chamfered plinth. A taller, similar 2-light south window and a contemporary 3-light east window with curvilinear tracery under a pointed arch with a hood flank the chancel. Stepped buttresses mark the sides of the east window, with the one on the south dating to the 19th century. The vestry has a re-set medieval door on the north side, featuring a pointed, chamfered arch. A 13th-century cross slab serves as an internal lintel.

Inside, the two-bay north arcade has pointed double-chamfered arches, hooded towards the nave, with a round pier and a moulded capital with a square abacus. The three-bay arcade on the south has octagonal piers. The chancel arch and the arch separating the south aisle from the chapel also spring from the eastern pier. A cut-back stoup is positioned by the south door, while a hollow-chamfered piscina is found in the south chapel. The chancel features a 19th-century arch to the organ chamber and a moulded sill string on the east, stepped down at the south end. The sill of the south window has been lowered to form sedilia, incorporating an integral shelf and a pillar piscina. A second piscina to the east has a trefoiled, hollow-chamfered arch, a shelf, and lockers. Two tomb recesses are on the north side. The eastern tomb recess has a pointed arch with the Widdrington arms at the apex; the western has a lower segmental arch and a small cross slab set into its sill.