Church Of The Holy Trinity And St Thomas Of Canterbury

The Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury is a church constructed between 1902 and 1903, designed by C Ford Whitcomb. It is built of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, and has tile roofs. Wide eaves, flush quoins, coped gables, and a stone internal stack are visible.

The plan incorporates a 3-bay nave with a north-east vestry and a south porch, a 2-bay chancel, a north-east tower, and a south chapel. Windows feature Perpendicular tracery. The chancel has a gable cross above a 3-light window, with a foundation stone dated 1902. The north and south sides each have two 2-light windows, straight-headed and traceried.

The 3-stage tower includes a diagonal buttress dated 1909, an octagonal stair turret to the west angle, a 2-light double-chamfered-mullioned window to the east, a similar 4-light window to the north, a double-chamfered light on three sides of the second stage, paired 2-light traceried and louvred bell openings with inscriptions from the Te Deum on lozenge panels, a partly pierced panelled parapet, and a recessed lead-clad superstructure.

The chapel has a 2-light straight-headed and traceried window to the east and west. A south entrance features a double-chamfered opening, flanked by straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights. The nave has gable crosses, offset buttresses, and straight-headed and traceried windows. The vestry’s north gable has an entrance and a window of 2 cusped lights, with a double-chamfered cusped light above, and a window of 3 cusped lights to the west. The south side has windows to the east of a pointed entrance with continuous mouldings and paired plank doors, flanked by a gabled porch with enriched open timber-framing on low stone walls, and a bronze sundial on a buttress. Lead rainwater heads and downspouts are also present.

The interior is reported to contain a late 18th-century pulpit from the former Church of St Thomas a Becket, and wall monuments dated 1784 and 1801. The church replaced the Church of St Thomas a Becket, built between 1798 and 1913, of which only the tower remains.