Parish Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church dating to the 12th century, with significant alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries and a restoration around 1881 by W.L. Bernard. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a north aisle and north chapel, a south porch, and a chancel. It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, with ashlar used in the tower; the roof is tiled with embattled parapets to the nave and north aisle.

The west tower is of the 14th century, with three stages and diagonal buttresses topped with pinnacles. It has an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles and gargoyles. A polygonal stair turret is located on the north east corner. The bell chamber features 3-light openings with transoms, reticulated tracery, and pierced stonework, as well as image niches on each elevation of the second stage. The west window is of two lights, and the west doorway has enriched spandrels. On the nave’s south side are three 2-light, square-headed, Perpendicular style windows with dripmoulds and square stops, with cusped heads to the tracery. Remains of a projecting rood stair turret are visible, along with projecting gargoyles. The south porch has an embattled parapet and a heavily moulded doorway. The north aisle, dating to 1881, has four 3-light Perpendicular style windows with cusped tracery and 4-centred heads under dripmoulds. The north chapel, also from 1881, incorporates a projecting organ chamber of 1929. Set into the north wall is a figure of St. John the Baptist, dated 1496 and originally from the demolished Pool House, accompanied by the inscription “STE. JOHES BAPTISTA” and the date “IN THE YERE OF OURE LORDS GOD M.CCC. III SCORE XVI. TRINITE MONDAY XXII DAY OF MAY”. The chancel, from 1881, contains two 2-light Perpendicular style windows, and an east window with a datestone of 1749.

Inside, the church has a four-bay arcade from 1881, constructed with attached shafts and a hollow moulding; the roofs are of Perpendicular style. The chancel arch is from 1881. The tower features fine fan vaulting. The pulpit is of Jacobean design, polygonal and set on a 19th-century ashlar base. The octagonal font has a quatrefoil bowl, and is of Perpendicular style. Numerous monuments are present, including a baroque memorial to William Giles (1750), a Purnell funeral hatchment (1743), a marble plaque to Mary Worrall (1694), a memorial to Hobbs (1740), and a memorial to William Worrall (1735). In the nave, there are a Gothic memorial to William Hobbs (1860), a classical tablet to Stokes (1773), a baroque tablet to John Purnell (1726), and a plain tablet to Spert (1638). Other memorials include works by W. Paty of Bristol (1762), Elizabeth Yate (1721), J. Hickes (1739), and John Summer (1763). A brass chandelier from 1728 is in the chancel, and a chandelier from around 1920 is in the north aisle.