Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church with a complex history, dating back to the 13th century. The nave originates from this period, while the west tower was added or rebuilt in the 17th century. A north porch also dates to the 17th century. The church underwent restoration in 1851, and a new chancel was constructed in 1881 by R.C. Bennett of Weymouth.

The building is constructed of rubble walls with freestone dressings, topped with clay tile roofs and stone slate eaves. The chancel features rook-faced masonry walls, buttresses with set-offs, a slate roof, stone gable copings, moulded kneelers, and a stone cross at the east gable. The nave’s north wall contains two windows: an eastern window of the 15th century with three cinquefoiled lights in a square head with moulded reveals, and a western window with three elliptical headed lights in a square head. Blocking for a former lancet is located east of the porch. The C13 north doorway, restored, features pointed arch jambs and a chamfered order. The north porch has an outer archway with chamfered jambs and a pointed head. The south wall mirrors the north, with similar windows, and a blocked C13 lancet. A blocked C13 doorway on the south wall, with chamfered jambs and a pointed head, sits above the lines of a former porch roof. The C17 west tower, constructed in two stages with a plain parapet, incorporates a reset C15 doorway in the east wall with nave moulded jambs and a pointed head. A rectangular window with 19th-century brick splays is set within the west wall, with a similar window above it. The bell chamber has rectangular windows on the north, south, and west walls. The chancel has a chamfered plinth and a string underneath the windows. It contains three lancets on both the north and south walls, and a triple lancet east window, internally shafted with capitals in a 13th-century style, topped by a moulded super-arch.

Inside, the 1881 chancel arch has tripled responds with moulded bases and capitals, supporting a pointed arch of two orders with multi-roll mouldings and a label with stops. The chancel roof is steeply pitched with an arch braced structure, high collars, and carved stone corbels. The nave's roof is of an unusual design, exhibiting a low collar beam, a king post above, diagonal struttings from a wall plate to the king posts, and iron bracing from the 19th century. A font of Purbeck marble features a tapering octagonal bowl with two panels featuring pointed heads on each face, a central stem with eight 19th-century subsidiary shafts, and an original 13th-century base raised on a 19th- or 20th-century plinth. A conservation cross, deeply incised and shaped like a cross potent, is carved into the jamb of the north doorway. Numerous wall tablets, primarily to the Richards family, are found throughout the church, dating to the 19th century. An 18th-century oak pulpit with moulded panels and a moulded cornice is also present.