Church Of Holy Trinity

LODDON CHURCH PLAIN TM 3698 (east side)

10/62 Church of Holy 5-9-60 Trinity

GV

Parish church, late C15. Large Perpendicular church built of flint with stone dressings. Comprising: nave with clerestorey, north and south aisles with chapels, south porch and west tower. Tall long nave and chancel in one with fifteen clerestorey windows on either side. Perpendicular aisle windows. Embattled parapets to nave and aisles. Tall west tower with diagonal buttresses, battlements, and base of tower with flushwork panelling, pinnacles and Decorated belfry openings, stair turret on south side and Perpendicular window on west side. Fine south porch with panelled flushwork front and battlement, carved friezes at base and above entrance, two square headed windows with niche between, inside a tierceron-star-vault. Moulded south doorway with flat arched panels. Interior: tall seven bay four-centred arch arcade, original roofs, hammerbeam nave roof with collar-beams. Good C15 font of Seven Sacrement type on risers. Large Jacobean pulpit. Early C16 parclose screens on north and south of chancel. Early C16 benches. C17 Communion rail re-used in chancel stalls. Early C16 screen with unusual painted dado. Monuments: brasses to Denis Willys 1462, John Blomevile and Dame Katherine Sampson 1346, Henry Holbart 1561. Tomb chests to Henry Hobart 1541, James Hobart and wife 1613 and 1609. Monument to Lady Williamson 1684 with very good reclining figure on sarcophagus in marble.

Listing NGR: TM3634298724