The Church Of Holy Trinity

TQ 04SW BRAMLEY C.P. HIGH STREET (East Side)

5/21 The Church of 9/3/60 Holy Trinity

GV II*

Church. Early C13 chancel and tower, mid-C13 south transept, north aisle added in 1850 and restored in 1875-6 by Henry Woodyer, when south aisle and vestries were added. Bargate stone rubble with hard chalk and Bath stone dressings, plain-tiled roof, renewed on broach spire. Originally Cruciform plan, altered in 1850 and 1876, now with porch to west, central tower, added aisles and vestries. Three gables to restored west end, with broadest gable to centre. C19 Decorated Style windows on sill courses to west end in flanking gables, two round-arched, Norman style lancets with scalloped capitals on nook-shafts, over west porch. Offset, diagonal buttresses to angles of west end. North aisle windows, C19, in style of C14, with ogee tracery and hood mouldings, the windows alternating with buttresses. East end:- three C13, splay-sided, chalk dressed, lancet windows, with three similar windows on south side of chancel. C19 windows to south aisle. Gabled porch to west end with Horsham slab roof, in Norman style. Round, arched, entrance with scalloped capitals to jamb shafts and roll mouldings. Original C12 door surround to west door, now restored, with zig-zag moulding to round arch and cushion capitals to jamb shafts Double, C19, doors. Interior:- Renewed roof. Three bay, round pier, chamfered arch arcade to north, five bay round pier arcade to south. Hammer-beam type roof with cusped, arched braces to north aisle. C19 chancel arch of coloured stone with C19 rood screen across. Fittings:- C19 and C20 pews. C19 oak pulpit, octagonal on wooden columns with Gothic arcading on panels. Old octagonal stone font now outside the church; C19 marble octagonal font inside. C20 reredos with linenfold panelling. C19 altar triptych. C13 arched and chamfered piscina with fleur-de-lys keystone finial. Monuments:- Transept: Dedicated to Mary Shurlock, Died 1748. Black stone with grey border. Urn with flame finial over cornice, putti and apron below. South aisle:- Monument to Richard Sparke, by E. Galfin of London. White stone, stele background with mourning female and urn. Monument to Henry Ludlow. Died 1684. Polychrome marble with broken pediment above and cartouche over round arched panel and niche in flanking composite order pilasters. Gadrooned urn attached to panel with gilt flame finial.

V.C.H. SURREY (1967 Ed.) Vol. III pp. 80-86 PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp.117-118.

Listing NGR: TQ0087944907