Church Of The Holy Trinity (Church Of England)

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church of 1863, designed by Ewan Christian for Rev David Barclay Bevan. It was restored in 1913 at a cost of £220. The church is constructed of red brick, banded with blue brick, and features bath stone keystones to pointed arches. The roofs are steeply pitched, covered in red tiles with scalloped bands, swept valleys, and moulded wooden bargeboards. A square timber fleche rises over the crosswing, lead-clad with a shingled spire above a louvred bell chamber. It is built in the Early English style and comprises a nave, an apsidal chancel, a crosswing and a south transept, a southeast vestry, and a north porch. Small lancet windows with red and buff brick pointed arches are found in pairs to the nave and singly around the apse. Tall, stepped triplets of lancets are positioned at the west end and north gable of the crosswing. A large wheel window is present in the south transept. Stained glass is in the chancel and transept, while elsewhere there is clear lattice leaded glass with margins. Moulded bricks form a drip course externally, and buttresses are positioned between the nave windows along the line of the trusses.

Inside, a wide polychrome chancel arch stands on stubby Early English marble columns with large, foliated stone caps. The low, plaster-vaulted chancel incorporates wooden ribs rising from a moulded wallplate. Plastered walls reveal the polychrome inner arches of splayed windows. A moulded band is evident below the window sills. A simple wooden rail sits on foliate ironwork. A low stone orthostat is on the right-hand side, and a coved, corbelled stone base supports an octagonal oak pulpit on the left-hand side, raised above the arch. The lofty, open timber roof, of arch-braced collar construction, extends for two and a half bays in the nave, with a further bay forming the crosswing, whose lower roofs come in from each side. Heavy, chamfered stone corbels support wallposts and the feet of the moulded arch-braces in the nave. A polychrome arch of two chamfered orders defines the transept, the inner order resting upon moulded corbels. Nave walls display plastered polychrome arches. Stone shafts with carved foliated capitals provide central support between each pair of lancets. There is a uniform arrangement of pine skeleton pews with reversed Y ends. An organ from 1864, built by T W Walker of London, is situated in the south transept. A large stone font rests on a square platform and features a moulded octagonal shaft and base, a rounded bowl with an inscribed band, and a circular oak cover with an iron handle. A low raised platform is at the west end. A marble relief wall monument, dedicated to H F Durnford d.1878 and signed H F Williamson, is located in the chancel, depicting the Figure of the Good Shepherd. A large gabled, enclosed north porch is constructed of red brick with a timber frame forming a band of quatrefoil windows on its sides and front. The porch is flanked by a large single-leaf oak door with decorative ironwork, and features a timbered gable end with pierced and cusped bargeboards.