Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a parish church dating from the first half of the 14th century. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings, and has pantiled nave and chancel roofs, with leaded aisle roofs. The west tower collapsed in the early 18th century and was replaced in 1854 by a bell tower built on two flat buttresses rising to the full height and connected by an arch at the roof line. The bell chamber is octagonal, pierced by trefoiled lights beneath a fleuron frieze, and topped with a broach spire.

The west windows of the aisles are lancet style, the southern window featuring a mouchette wheel. Diagonal buttresses include set-offs. A south porch features a round arched opening of wave mouldings and has renewed 2-light side windows under a gabled roof with a shouldered parapet. There are two south and one east aisle windows: one of 3 lights with 15th-century panel tracery in a segmental arch with label stops; another of 3 lights with reticulated cusped lozenge units and label stops; and a third of 3 lights, also reticulated.

The chancel incorporates a low side window in the form of a cusped light transomed at the base, a 2-light square-headed window above the priest's door with subsidiary arches below vertical mullions and mullion shafts, and a 2-light converging mouchette window. A central flat buttress features a dentilled eaves cornice, accompanied by diagonal east buttresses enclosing a 4-light reticulated east window with cusping and a hood mould. A raised parapet is topped with a Latin cross. A vestry has been added to the north chancel wall, cutting into the buttress to the east of a single cusped lancet window. The north aisle east window is of 2 lights, reticulated, along with two other 2-light north windows, one cusped and the other panelled. A blocked north door exhibits wave and sunk quadrant mouldings. The nave clerestory includes three 2-light segmental-headed windows on both the north and south sides.

The interior features a 3-bay arcade; south piers are quatrefoil with fillets to the north and south lobes, moulded bases and capitals and double sunk quadrant arches, while north piers are quatrefoil with diagonal fillets, similar bases and capitals, and double chamfered arches. The roof was replaced in 1953, although fragments of a 14th-century roof remain in the south aisle. The tall chancel arch has wave mouldings and polygonal capitals. A wall painting dating from around 1450, above the chancel arch, depicts the Holy Trinity, the Virgin, and St. Gabriel flanking a cross, with subsidiary angels bearing scrolls on a red foliate diaper background. Two north aisle paintings, dating from around 1350, depict scenes of pilgrimage. The south aisle includes a piscina decorated with crocketted and finialed ogee between buttresses. The chancel piscina features two trefoiled lights divided by a column under a straight arch, as do the remains of the sedilia. The chancel roof is barrel-shaped. A font from the early 14th century is octagonal and decorated with punched tracery patterns. The nave contains good poppy-head benches from the 15th century, some with carved arm rests depicting figures.