Trinity Chapel At Bentley Heath

Trinity Chapel at Bentley Heath is a private chapel built in 1866 by S.S. Teulon for G. Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, as part of the Wrotham Park estate. The chapel is constructed of English bond red brick with white and burnt brick and stone dressings, and has a tiled roof. It is designed in a polychrome Gothic style and includes a chancel with a north vestry, a nave with a south porch, and a west, apsidal baptistery.

The four-bay nave has three windows on the south side, each with two lights and quatrefoiled heads, accompanied by brick hood moulds. A gabled timber porch is situated to the right of the centre of the south elevation, built on a brick plinth and featuring trefoil-headed lancets with diamond-leaded lights and stained glass panels between studs. The nave has an arch-braced roof and decorative bargeboards. Four similar, slightly larger windows on the north side have decorative relieving arches, but lack a plinth and hood moulds. Angle buttresses mark the west end of the nave. The semi-octagonal baptistery rises to eaves level, showcasing three trefoiled lancets and a string course at sill level. It is topped with a stone parapet featuring a corbel table, with pointed heads to the buttresses above the parapet. A circular window is situated in the west end of the nave wall, comprised of six circular lights surrounding a star, and is set within a decorative white brick surround. The gable features polychromatic stone blocks and brick bands, culminating in a ridge cross on a stone-coped parapet. The roof is steeply pitched. At the east end of the nave is a large bellcote with tumbled-in brickwork and two stone spirelets.

The chancel is lower, shorter, and narrower than the nave and features east-end angle buttresses, a stone-coped parapet, a similar gable ornament, and a ridge cross. The large, traceried east window sits above a stepped-up string course. A small, lean-to addition acts as an aisle on the south side, incorporating a five-light ribbon window. The north vestry has a hipped roof, an entrance on the west side, three square lights on the north side, and a lean-to boiler room to the east. A tall stack with decorative capping is located at the northeast corner of the nave.

The interior features chancel and baptistery arches with responds stopped halfway down. Star brick patterning is visible in the spandrels of the nave windows, interrupted to the north by larger openings with a boarded ceiling. Glass from St. Peters, Cranley Gardens is incorporated into the north nave windows; other windows are plain. Memorials include a chest tomb to G. Byng, who died in 1847, ornate neo-Perpendicular memorials to Lady A. Byng, who died in 1845, and to Gen Sir J. Byng, who died in 1860, all of which were relocated from the demolished Church of St. John the Baptist in Potters Bar.