Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* Anglican parish church located in Paulton, dating from 1757 and 1839, with the latter part designed by John Pinch. It is constructed of ashlar with freestone dressings and has a slate roof. The church features a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, a north porch, chancel, south chapel, and a north organ chamber.

The square tower consists of three stages, with set-back buttresses and a full-height circular stair turret. The first stage includes a plinth, a Tudor-arch west door with heavy moulding, and a plank door beneath a small ogee-headed window. Strings between the stages also appear between the buttresses. The second stage has a quatrefoil to the west, while the third stage sees the buttresses diminish, topped with crocketted finials. Each side of the tower has a two-light pointed window below a hoodmould with quatrefoil pierced tracery, and an ogee quatrefoil above. The date 1757 is likely inscribed on the west side. The tower is capped with an ogee frieze as a corbel table below a quatrefoil pierced parapet with obelisk corner finials. The tower stands at the west end of the north aisle of the church built in 1831.

The gabled nave features a three-light pointed, cusped west window, while the buttressed aisles have four similar two-light windows. One window is located above the south door under a label, and one is absent at the site of the gabled north porch, which has a moulded pointed arch below a date scroll. The diagonal buttressed, gabled chancel has a three-light pointed east window, with similar two-light windows in the north and south gabled chapels.

Inside, the church has a four-bay Perpendicular arcade with shafts on very thin piers. The small chancel is richly decorated with mock hammer beams featuring angels, and the nave roof is constructed with arch-braced queen post trusses and tracery spandrels. Notable fittings include an octagonal font possibly from the 16th century, a stone pulpit with Perpendicular details in the local tradition, and a complete set of pews with poppy heads. A significant monument at the west end of the south aisle features a 14th-century chivalric figure under a hood with head stops.