Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a late Perpendicular clerestoryed church rebuilt on the site of an earlier church between approximately 1460 and 1495. Five of the western bays incorporate piers dating back to the 14th century of the original building. The Lady Chapel, constructed in 1496 by the Cloptons of Kentwell Hall, is located at the eastern end, and the west tower was added between 1898 and 1903, designed by architect G F Bodley. The church, including the Lady Chapel, extends approximately 250 feet in length.

The church is constructed of flint and stone, notably with richly ornamented flushwork on the south side. The nave and chancel feature a castellated parapet, with flat-roofed north and south aisles. A significant exterior feature is a series of memorial inscriptions, arranged in decorative bands around the church, which commemorate those who contributed to the church's construction and their families. These inscriptions allow for a precise dating of the building's phases: the clerestory was completed in 1481, the south chapel in 1484, and the Lady Chapel in 1496.

The nave and chancel have fine moulded arch braced cambered beams with carved spandrels, alongside moulded ridge beams, purlins, and joists. The Lady Chapel, designed as an interior shrine surrounded by an ambulatory, also boasts fine moulded cambered beams and joists to its roof. The Clopton chapel, to the north of the chancel, contains several good 15th and 16th century brasses, and the adjoining Clopton chantry holds the monument to John Clopton (died 1497), a plain Purbeck marble tomb chest. In the chancel, immediately south of the altar, is a large and elaborate monument to Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls (died 1581), designed by Cornelius Cure, master mason to the crown. A fine, small, bas relief in alabaster depicting the Adoration of the Magi (dated approximately 1350), likely from the earlier church, is set into the north wall of the nave.

The church is designated Grade I for its outstanding architectural, historical, and topographical value.