Church Of Holy Trinity

Church of Holy Trinity

A parish church of stone construction, primarily dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with substantial restoration undertaken in 1865. The building is dressed stone with ashlar dressings, mostly rendered in the 20th century, and features slate and leaded roofs. It displays chamfered and moulded plinths, coved and chamfered eaves, and moulded crenellated parapets with coped gables and kneelers.

The church comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle, chancel, vestry, and south porch.

The west tower dates to the 15th century and rises in two stages. It has a coved string course and eaves band with gargoyles to the north and south, and a crenellated parapet with four crocketed pinnacles. Two shallow diagonal buttresses flank the west face with three setoffs. The first stage contains a stair light and clock to the south, and to the west a late 15th-century double lancet with round heads, panel tracery and hood mould, with a further stair light and clock above. The second stage has four 15th-century double lancet bell openings with round heads, panel tracery and hood moulds.

The nave comprises three bays with a gabled octagonal chimney to the north and a plain buttress with two setoffs to the east. The south side contains a restored 13th-century double lancet with plate tracery and hood mould to the east, and a late 15th-century triple lancet with cusped heads and four-centred arched reveal to the west.

The north aisle, measuring two bays, has two diagonal and one single central buttresses with two and three setoffs respectively, with the remains of a small buttress at the west end. To the east is a 15th-century double lancet with cusped ogee heads in a square-headed reveal. To the west is a chamfered blocked doorway with hood mould and mask stops, to the right of which is a 14th-century double lancet with trefoil heads and cusped quatrefoil, hood mould and mask stops.

The unbuttressed chancel spans two bays with a blank north side. To the east is a restored 14th-century triple lancet with trefoil heads, geometrical tracery and coved reveal. The south side has an off-centre priest's door, now blocked with hood mould, and to the east a 13th-century double lancet with trefoil heads, plate tracery and hood mould, with a restored 13th-century lancet of greater height to the west but otherwise identical in design.

The single-bay vestry dates to the 15th century and has a diagonal buttress to the north east with two setoffs. Its north side contains an early 16th-century double lancet with cusped round heads and triangular headed reveal.

The south porch features a late 13th-century south doorway, double chamfered and rebated, with round shaft responds on stepped octagonal bases and moulded round capitals. The interior contains stone benches and a round stoup reset on the east side. A 19th-century principal rafter roof with collars spans above. The inner south doorway dates to the 15th century and has an elliptical head with cove and roll mouldings, with a 19th-century door.

The interior nave north arcade is late 13th-century, comprising three bays with two round piers and two half-round responds with stepped round moulded bases and simple moulded capitals. The arches are keeled and roll moulded with rebated edges and dogtooth decoration. A stoup recess lies to the right of the south door. The south side east window contains 15th-century stained glass fragments in the head. A 19th-century roof in 15th-century style has moulded principal rafters carried on curved brackets from moulded corbels.

The tower arch is 13th-century, double chamfered and rebated with moulded conical responds, the right respond bearing the incised inscription 'G N'. The tower chamber contains a carillion keyboard and a west window with stained glass fragments in the head. The north aisle has two windows with stained glass fragments in the heads and a 19th-century lean-to roof with curved brackets on moulded octagonal corbels.

The chancel arch is early 14th-century, double chamfered and rebated with hood mould and keeled half-round responds with round moulded bases and capitals. The north side has a 14th-century double chamfered and rebated opening with matchboard infill to the west, and an east end sill band with a 19th-century stained glass window. The south side contains a chamfered piscina with segmental head to the east and a blocked doorway to the west, with two further windows bearing stained glass fragments in the heads. A 19th-century pseudo-hammer beam roof features curved brackets on carved corbels and minor kingposts above collars with curved brackets to the ridge.

Fittings include a font with a 19th-century round and square base, a square shaft with four minor shafts, and a 13th-century shallow eggcup bowl with a 19th-century cover. A 19th-century painted ashlar pulpit stands on a round stem with clustered piers and square top with traceried panels. A 20th-century timber lectern with octagonal stem, moulded matchboarded 19th-century oak benches, and a 16th-century oak plank chest with short legs and fleur de lys straps and hinges are also present. A sanctus bell is located in the vestry.

Monuments include a war memorial tablet in an alabaster frame, dating to 1918.