Church Of The Holy Trinity

CHILFROME SY 59 NE CHILFROME VILLAGE

2/17 Church of The Holy Trinity 26-1-56 GV II *

Parish Church. C14 and C15 core, with Chancel rebuilt c.1852, and rest of church restored in 1864. Nave with bellcote, chancel North Vestry. Flint and rubble stone walls with freestone dressings. Clay tile roofs. Nave, north wall, C20 window and a doorway, blocking of a former window. South wall, 2 windows, eastern, of 3-lights trefoil-cusped, with a hollow-chamfered surround in a square head. Lozenge-leaded lights, C15. Two-light window, left of this, with falchion in head, C19. North Porch, entrance with pointed arch and chamfered jambs. Stone-coped gable and clay-tile roof. Plank door with ornamental hinges, C19. Chancel; east window, 3-light trefoil cusping with intersecting tracery, falchions and quatrefoil in head, C19. Label with head-stops. South wall has a pointed-arch doorway at centre, buttressed either side and joining over the doorway. 2-light trefoil-cusped windows. Interior: Chancel-arch with straight chamfers and sunk quadrant moulding, jambs into pointed arch without capitals, C14. Roof: arch-braced collar-beam type with scissor-bracing over, all carried on curved stone corbels of chembin fittings: font, C19, octagonal stone bowl and stem, spurred trefoils with foliage. Confiteor inscription. Pulpit, stone, approached through arch on right hand side of chancel-arch. Three-sided and corbelled-out. Lamb of God in spurred quatrefoil at centre. Running foliage in cornice. Piscina, chancel, stone with foliage banding under a trefoiled head. (R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 98 (1).)

Listing NGR: SY5905298795