Church Of Holy Trinity Holy Trinity Church

Church of Holy Trinity

A parish church in the village of Wysall, standing on Main Street. The building dates from the 12th century through to the 19th century, with major periods of construction in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, and a significant restoration carried out in 1874. It is constructed of dressed coursed rubble with some ashlar, and weatherboarding to the east nave. The roofs are of slate, plain tile and lead.

The church comprises a tower, nave, south aisle, south porch and chancel. The tower is a single stage structure with diagonal buttresses and is embattled, topped with a spire featuring four lucarnes. Remains of two gargoyles survive on the west, north and south sides.

The west side of the tower displays a single arched 14th-century window with a single transom, two cinquefoil arched lights above and below with cusped tracery, hood mould and worn label stops. The south wall contains a single 13th-century lancet. The east side shows evidence of a former nave roof. The four arched two-light bell chamber openings of the 14th century have cusped tracery; the opening on the east side is surmounted by a single clock face.

The north wall exhibits 12th-century masonry and features a 12th-century arched doorway with hood mould and remains of a single right human head label stop. Set high into the wall to the left is a small 12th-century arched light. Further left are two 14th-century arched windows, each with two trefoil arched lights. The 15th-century clerestory contains two restored windows, each with two trefoil arched lights under a flat arch. The east and north chancel walls are set on plinths. The north chancel wall has no openings. The east chancel has a single 17th-century three-light ashlar mullion window under a flat arch with segmental arched hood mould. The rebuilt south chancel wall contains a single 14th-century three-light window with cusped tracery under a flat arch and remains of two human head label stops. To the left is a round chamfered arched doorway, and on the far left a single 14th-century two-light window with cusped tracery under a flat arch. The east end of the south aisle displays a single 14th-century window with cusped tracery. The buttressed south wall has a single 14th-century arched window with two trefoil arched lights. The 19th-century gabled porch features a double chamfered arched entrance with hood mould and label stops. The inner doorway is also chamfered and arched, with imposts, hood mould and worn human head label stops. To the left is a single similar two-light window. The porch clerestory corresponds to the north clerestory but contains three windows. Gables to the east chancel and porch are coped with single ridge crosses.

Interior

The interior features a three-bay 15th-century nave arcade. The east pier consists of a single central jamb flanked by single engaged octagonal columns. The west pier has an octagonal column and octagonal responds. The west respond and the west side of the east pier carry capitals decorated with upright noble leaves; the remainder have moulded capitals. The arches are double chamfered, with the west pier having stops to the outer order forming carved heads.

The tower arch is a tall 13th-century double chamfered opening; the inner order is supported on foliate decorated corbels. The chancel screen is a fine 15th-century piece with open panel tracery and four misericords on the east side. In the south chancel is a single trefoil arched piscina. To its right stands a single 14th-century stoup with a carved human head. A reredos with seven bay blind arcading occupies the chancel. A small rectangular niche appears to the left of the north-east nave window.

The 15th-century nave roof has bosses carved in the shape of heads. The 15th-century chancel roof features arched wind braces. A 17th-century altar table with turned legs stands in the chancel. The pulpit is 15th-century work with blind traceried panels. The font is 13th-century, of bulbous circular form. Three 17th-century benches survive. An medieval ladder to the bell chamber is in situ. An 18th-century candelabra is positioned in the chancel. A benefactions board adorns the north wall of the nave.

Memorials include a heraldic painted wooden memorial to George Widmerpool, dated 1689. The chancel contains an alabaster memorial to Hugh Armstrong of Thorpe, dated 1572, and his wife Mary. The tomb sides are decorated with seven figures and shields. The recumbent figures are shown in contemporary dress: he is represented as a knight with feet resting on a lion and his head on a visor; she has her head resting on a pillow.