Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church dating from 1809-1815, with medieval origins, designed by Henry Hakewill. The church was constructed primarily from Attleborough sandstone ashlar sourced from Warwickshire, supplemented by similar stone from Bilston, Staffordshire, transported by canal. Re-used limestone ashlar is visible below sill levels and to gables, likely from a previous church. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate, while the tower has a flat copper roof.

The church features a 2-bay nave with transepts and a square chancel, with a vestry located to the south. A large, three-stage west tower incorporates the remains of a medieval central tower. The west portal is a three-order design with interlacing arcading. Round-headed windows are found on the tower, nave, and transepts. The chancel's east window is unusually large, featuring Portland stone tracery comprising eight lobes around a central circle. A corbel table sits beneath the parapet. Prominent gables rise above the roofs of the transepts and chancel, each flanked by octagonal lantern turrets with ribbed, pyramidal finials, inspired by those at Peterborough Cathedral.

Inside the tower, blocked 14th-century arches to the north and south indicate former transeptal chapels. These arches are formed of two chamfered, pointed arches dying into piers within a chamfered, shouldered arch with a pointed head, constructed from Northamptonshire limestone set in local coursed limestone rubble. A doorway in the southwest corner leads to a medieval stone spiral staircase. Re-used stone paving is present in the tower and nave. Three steps lead up to the chancel, which features re-used 17th-century limestone paving with black polished slate squares at the intersections, and black and white marble chequer paving within the communion rails. Flat beamed ceilings cover most of the church, while the chancel has a ribbed plaster vault with a central boss. Wall paintings dating from around 1870 adorn the east wall of the nave, the area around the chancel arch, and the east wall, executed by Daniel Bell of Bell and Almond. This firm also completed a polychromatic, stencilled decorative scheme designed by Edward Swinfen Harris, although some of the stencilled decoration has been painted over. A significant monument to the north side of the chancel, in grey veined marble and dated 1685, depicts the recumbent figure of Sir Thomas Longueville (d. 1685) and is attributed to Thomas Stayner. The east window contains stained glass installed in 1888 by Nathaniel Westlake, working for the firm of Lavers and Westlake. Stained glass windows, likely designed by Daniel Bell around 1870-79, are present in the nave. Further stained glass windows of the 19th century are also found in the north and south windows of the transepts. A round stone pulpit, decorated by Bell and Almond around 1870, is also present. The font is covered by a tall oak cover designed by E. Swinfen Harris.