Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church located in Chilfrome, with origins dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries. The chancel was rebuilt around 1852, and the rest of the church underwent restoration in 1864. It features flint and rubble stone walls with freestone dressings and clay tile roofs.

The nave has a bellcote and a north wall that includes a 20th-century window and a doorway, along with the blocking of a former window. The south wall has two windows; the eastern window is a three-light design with trefoil cusping and a hollow-chamfered surround in a square head, dating from the 15th century. To the left of this is a two-light window with a falchion in the head, which is from the 19th century.

The north porch has an entrance with a pointed arch and chamfered jambs, topped by a stone-coped gable and a clay-tile roof. The plank door features ornamental hinges from the 19th century. In the chancel, the east window is a three-light design with trefoil cusping and intersecting tracery, falchions, and a quatrefoil in the head, also from the 19th century, and has a label with head-stops. The south wall includes a pointed-arch doorway flanked by buttresses, with two-light trefoil-cusped windows.

Inside, the chancel arch features straight chamfers and sunk quadrant moulding, with jambs leading into a pointed arch without capitals from the 14th century. The roof is of the arch-braced collar-beam type with scissor-bracing, supported by curved stone corbels with chembin fittings. The font is a 19th-century octagonal stone bowl and stem, adorned with spurred trefoils and foliage, and includes a Confiteor inscription. The stone pulpit, accessed through an arch on the right side of the chancel arch, is three-sided and corbelled out, featuring a Lamb of God in a spurred quatrefoil at the center and running foliage in the cornice. The piscina in the chancel is made of stone, with foliage banding beneath a trefoiled head.