Church Of The Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Church.
Church Of The Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rood-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church that was incised with the date "1727" on the keystone over the west door and was consecrated in 1730. It underwent alterations in the mid-19th century. The church is constructed of sandstone with ashlar detailing and has a plain tiled roof. It features a provincial Baroque-style west tower and a four-bay gothicised nave.
The west tower consists of three stages and has an embattled top with pyramidal corner pinnacles. It includes an "oeil-de-boeuf" window on the west side at the first stage and another on the south side between the first and second stages. There is a semi-circular headed arch on the north side in the first stage, and a bold string course separates the top from the second stage. The top stage has semi-circular headed arches with dropped keystones, one each to the south and north, as well as a round-headed lancet on the east and north sides.
The nave originally had four semi-circular headed windows with dropped keystones on each side, although scars from these are only visible on the south wall. These were replaced in the mid-19th century by two 2-light trefoiled windows and two lancets on the south side, with only two windows on the north side. The east window is a three-light design from the mid-19th century.
Entry to the church is through double early 18th-century doors, each with five fielded panels, set under a segmental moulded arch with a dropped keystone beneath a cornice supported by two pilasters.
Inside, the church features 19th-century arch-brace collar trusses supported from corbels, an 18th-century communion table, and a contemporary font with a hexagonal basin, moulded stem, and base. The front pews are inscribed with the names of important local residences, while the rear pews are numbered for poorer parishioners according to conditions specified on a board under the tower. An 18th-century board under the tower lists benefactors who contributed to the church's construction, including "Most Noble Ja Duke of Chandos 5.5.0," alongside a painting of the church by Wick of Hereford as it then was.
The church is a prominent feature in the landscape, situated away from current roads and houses, surrounded by fields that show the undulations of a deserted, likely medieval village.
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