Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church dating primarily to the 15th century, with a significant restoration in 1884. It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings, and has lead roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The two-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, a polygonal stair turret in the south-east corner, and an embattled parapet with cruciform arrow-slits. The west façade incorporates a 15th-century opening with 19th-century tracery at its base and simple two-light openings in the bell stage under pointed heads. A 19th-century sundial is situated on the south façade. The south aisle has four 15th-century window openings filled with 3-light, cusped, Perpendicular-style tracery. It is characterised by offset aisle buttresses, a moulded plinth and eaves cornice, and a triangular trefoil pierced openwork parapet with crocketted pinnacles developing from the buttresses, and fine animal gargoyles at their bases. The north aisle contains five Tudor-arched windows with plain 3-light tracery, some of which have been renewed in the 19th century. A north door has chamfered paterae jambs and a 15th-century plank door with elaborate wooden tracery across the head of the arch. This aisle also features a similar parapet with gargoyles, and an octagonal rood stair turret with a pyramidal cap rising from a crocketted and tracery-panelled drum. The chancel east window has 19th-century tracery set within a 15th-century opening. The south porch follows the buttressing and parapet style of the aisles, with a simple, triple-chamfered, pointed headed entrance arch. Above the arch is a two-light window under a Tudor arch with face stops to what was formerly a parvise, which has a stair turret at the west corner. A complexly moulded south doorway leads to a 19th-century plank and batten door. The roof is compartmented with moulded ribs resting on corbels to the former parvise.

Inside, the 4-bay nave arcades consist of four clustered shafts to each pier, with tight foliage capitals on the south side only, and simple single chamfered arches. A triple-chamfered tower arch is distinguished by moulded projecting imposts. The nave has a wagon roof with carved bosses, while the chancel features a single-chamfered arch with a carving of a man holding what was once the rood screen. The chancel has a coved barrel roof, and a cinquefoil-headed piscina is located on the south wall beside a mutilated carving of Christ with censing angels. The aisle roofs are supported by angel imposts and long wall shafts, with fine ridge bosses. Fittings include pews and screens at the end bays of the aisles (added in 1913), a 19th-century Perpendicular-style pulpit, font, and reredos. Above the tower arch is a Royal coat of arms, as well as two flags or colours belonging to the East Mendip Legion (raised in 1803). The church also boasts a fine set of late 19th-century stained glass.