Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built in 1845, with transepts added in 1848 and 1860, along with some minor modifications in the 20th century. Designed by the local architect Thomas Hellyer, it features an Early English style and a cruciform plan. The exterior is constructed of ragstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with some polychromy.

On the southwest side, there is a tall tower that includes a narrow triple lancet window, corner buttresses, and is topped with an octagonal bell stage and a fine steeple. The main entrance has a pointed arch door with a moulded stone architrave and colonettes, along with a distinctive corner stair tower. The apsidal chancel has a rounded lower room at the corner and a hipped roof with a small blind arcade on corbels below the eaves. The windows are either single or paired lancets with thin hood moulds, and there are buttresses around the building with slate caps and quoins. The entrance porch features a pitched roof and an arched opening with a moulded surround that includes dog tooth detailing. The timber door has decorative hinges.

Inside, the nave and aisles are supported by a tall moulded arcade on slender clustered colonettes with moulded capitals. The roof consists of slender rafters and trusses with cross braces and angled struts that curve to the arcade wall, resting on corbelled blocks. There is a tall pointed chancel arch leading to a three-sided chancel. The wooden pews in the nave and aisle have fleur de lys finials and doors into the pews, with an additional open attached seat flanking the aisle in each row. Timber screens are present in the side chapel, along with some dado panelling. A wide arch has been infilled with 20th-century boarding to separate the space. The central aisle features Victorian floor tiles, and there is figurative coloured glass in the lancet windows. An octagonal stone font is also present.

The church is enclosed by a rubble stone wall with stone gate piers topped with fleur de lys. The Church of the Holy Trinity is a well-preserved example of 19th-century ecclesiastical architecture and serves as a prominent landmark when approaching Ryde from the Solent.