Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church with origins in the 12th century, but largely rebuilt in the 19th century, specifically 1896, by Basset Smith. A 15th-century tower and spire (with the spire's upper section rebuilt in the 19th century) remain as earlier fabric. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a 20th-century tile roof. It comprises a chancel and aisled nave, a west tower, a south porch, and a vestry. An apsidal chancel was demolished and rebuilt in the 19th century without an apse. The building is in the Early English style, with an Early English style door on the south side, and three-light windows to the east. Decorated style windows are present on the north and south sides. A vestry is attached to the south aisle, and the nave has three bays with 19th-century two-light windows. A 14th-century two-light window is situated to the east of the north aisle. A 19th-century plank door is set within a 13th-century pointed doorway of two orders of shafts with chamfered surrounds and a head-mould with label stops. A 19th-century porch features an Early English style doorway. Buttresses are present along the walls and at the angles of the nave and chancel, with gables that are coped. The west tower is of three stages, with plinth and angle buttresses rising to the third stage. It has a three-light cusped window, with a chamfered surround, on the west side of the first stage, and square-headed lights on the west, north, and east sides of the second stage. The third stage contains 15th-century two-light cusped square-headed windows on all four sides. The third stage has a 15th-century parapet, topped by a rebuilt 19th-century hexagonal spire.

The interior retains the original 15th-century south arcade, with three bays of polygonal piers and responds to the east and west. The hood-mould incorporates 15th-century label stops of carved heads. A triple chamfered tower arch is also present. A Norman font with a carved polygonal cover dated 1673 stands in the centre of the nave. A Norman capital of stylised foliage has been reset into the west wall of the south aisle, alongside a 13th-century tomb slab. A 1595 alabaster monument in the west wall of the south aisle depicts William Price, his wife, and her parents, kneeling before prayer desks, with three Corinthian columns supporting an entablature bearing coats of arms and putti heads. It is inscribed with “AVOET PARENTI BENE MERENTIBUS WILLIMUS PRICEUS EQ. AVRAT H.M.L.L.P.". A marble monument to Charles Dixwell of Coton and his wife Abigail, erected in 1641, is in the west wall of the north aisle, presenting Charles and his wife kneeling in prayer with demi-figures of their sons and daughter praying below. A further 18th-century wall monument is in the north wall of the chancel.