Church Of The Holy Trinity

SJ 51 SW UFFINGTON C.P. UFFINGTON

3/78 Church of the Holy 13.6.58 Trinity

• II

Parish church. 1856 by S. Pountney Smith, on site of medieval church. Yellow sandstone ashlar; tiled roof with verge parapets and gabled belfry to west apex. Nave and chancel under one roof, north aisle. Early English in inspiration. Nave and chancel: south side has diagonal buttresses and continuous eaves band with fleuron decoration, raised strings at impost and cill level of windows: 4 1/2 pairs of lancets, the single window to west of a gabled timber framed porch and the last pair to the east of a small lean-to chapel (possibly an addition) with a triple lancet window. Rose window to east end over 3 lancets, single central lancet to west unusually set in a pilaster strip. North aisle: 4 pairs of lancets with a pointed 2-light window to the west end and a trefoil-shaped light to the east over the round arch, boarded vestry door. Interior: roofs with arch- braced collars and king posts; 3-bay north aisle arcade with circular piers and dogtooth decorated moulded arches; vestry and organ chamber arches, triple sedilia, and trefoiled piscina; circa 1856 fittings include altar rails, octagonal stone pulpit, choir stalls and tub font; stained glass: roundels of C16-C17 Netherlandish glass in north aisle windows and C17 German glass in south windows. The church is said to incorporate some fragments of medieval masonry west of the porch. D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, Vol.7, .624; B.o.E., p.305.

Listing NGR: SJ5280613890