Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church built in 1854 by R P Pope, located in East Malling and Larkfield. It is constructed from Kentish ragstone rubble with ashlar dressings, designed in an early English style. The church features a nave with a west bellcote, a south porch, a south aisle, and a separate chancel. The roof is covered with plain tiles, except for pantiles over the south aisle.

The west front is notable for its very tall angle buttresses, with a single lower central buttress separating single lancets. Above these is a large wheel window with short columns radiating from the center. The two-stage west bellcote houses three bells and is topped with a square hood on the diagonal, featuring lancet openings, trefoils, and a topmost spinelet and cross, reminiscent of Gloucestershire architecture.

Inside, the nave consists of four bays, which are doubled in the clerestory, and features three-light windows, lancets with round upper lights, and single lancets in the clerestory. The chancel has two bays and is blind, with a vestry to the north. Stepped angle and side-buttresses, as well as gargoyles, are present throughout the exterior.

The interior includes a hollow-chamfered south arcade with four pointed arches on short, stout piers adorned with carved naturalistic decoration. A matching wall arcade is present on the north side. The nave roof is a collar-purlin design with crown-posts and trusses supported by brackets, along with side-purlins and scissor-braces. The chancel arch is chamfered and rests on foliate brackets. The reredos screen against the east wall consists of columns with a central relief panel depicting the Last Supper. The east window features rere-arches on slim piers, with hollow-chamfers filled with foliate decoration and ball-flown steps. The chancel roof has an arch-braced scissor-truss design.

Fittings include an octagonal pulpit on a plain octagonal base with inset relief panels, and a bulbous 19th-century font on a five-columned base with angels depicted on the sides. The east and west windows contain stained glass by Alexander Gibbs.