Parish Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building constructed between 1827 and 1829 by architect Strickland, funded by George Gould, the Vicar. The church features ashlar stone walls and slate roofs, comprising a west tower, nave, chancel, and a polygonal sanctuary.

The west tower is three stages high, divided by string courses, and is supported by diagonal buttresses. It has a crenellated parapet and pinnacles topped with pagoda finials. The west doorway has moulded jambs and a pointed arch, with a label featuring square stops. Above the doorway is a two-light mullion window with cinquefoil cusping and a label with mitre-stops. The bell openings consist of single lights with trefoil-cusped heads and stone tracery, topped by a label with a depressed-arch head.

The nave consists of three bays, each with two-light windows set in pointed-arch heads with panel tracery and returned labels above. The east window features a wide pointed arch and a label with vine-stops. The bay divisions are buttressed, with additional diagonal buttressing at the corners.

Inside, the roof has a low pitch and is adorned with 32 panels featuring cinquefoil cusping and trilobe leaves in the spandrels. The wide chancel arch has one respond order with capitals and moulded abaci, and a label with square stops. The chancel includes recesses in the east, north, and south walls with arched heads supported by slender attached shafts, and the plaster soffits are decorated with cusped panelling. The ribs of the vaulted plaster roof spring from these shafts, featuring rib vaults and soffited panels with quatrefoils.

The east window contains stained glass in grey grisaille, depicting the Resurrection of Christ at the center. A large white marble wall tablet is located on the right side of the chancel, dedicated to John Gould Esq., who died on 26 August 1818 at the age of 43. This monument, erected by his brother, features three figures in Neo-Classical style carved in high relief around an urn, with a shield of arms in the foreground and an inscription tablet below. The font, dating from the 19th century, has a stone bowl with intersecting arches and an arcaded base.