Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church dating from 1866, designed by T.H. Wyatt for the Marquess of Westminster. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a tiled roof featuring fishscale bands and ceramic cresting. The church is laid out around a plan comprising a nave, north and south chapels, a chancel with a south-east tower and a north vestry. The architectural style is Early 13th century.

The pointed south doorway to the nave has a gabled hood supported by marble shafts with foliated capitals, and a two-light plate tracery window is positioned to its right. The south chapel features a lancet window to the west side, two further lancets, and a multifoil window with a nailhead-decorated surround. The three-stage tower to the right has a fine south doorway with a pointed archway featuring enriched nailhead ornament and a crocketed aedicule on pink marble shafts. The tower includes angle buttresses, string courses, a pair of lancets to the second stage, a large two-light plate tracery window with attached shafts and louvres to all sides of the bell stage, a Lombardic frieze to the eaves of the octagonal spire with corner pinnacles and gableted shuttered windows, and a cylindrical stair turret to the east side crowned with a conical roof.

The apsed chancel has four buttresses rising to pinnacles, set between five cusped lancet windows with hoodmoulds, and corbelled eaves. The north vestry has a pitched roof, a two-light window, and a shouldered doorway, incorporating an ashlar stack with offsets. The north chapel echoes the south chapel with two lancets and a multifoil window with matching detail. Two two-light plate tracery windows are located on the north side of the nave. The west end contains angle buttresses, two lancets, a central buttress, and a large roll-moulded circular window with quatrefoils above.

The interior features a six-bay roof with arch-braced collars resting on foliated corbels. The north and south chapels have two-bay arcades, with pointed arches supported on pink marble piers and responds adorned with leaf capitals; they also feature scissor-rafter roofs and a pointed doorway with attached shafts leading to the vestry. The pointed chancel arch has attached marble shafts with foliated capitals and foliage carving. The chancel is distinguished by a fine quadripartite rib-vaulted roof of three bays with an apsidal east end, a polychrome tiled floor, and east windows with attached shafts and hoodmoulds, containing stained glass in memory of William Radcliffe, who died in 1885. Original features include wrought-iron and wooden communion rails, pews, and choir stalls, alongside oil lamps along the nave walls. A stone and marble font sits on five short columns within the south chapel, and the pink and grey marble pulpit is adorned with relief-carved heads of the four Apostles. A stone plaque on the vestry wall commemorates the building of an 18th-century church on the site by Alderman William Beckford, which was demolished in the 1860s. Fine foliage carving was executed by a Mr. Sansom. The church is considered one of the finest examples of Victorian estate churches in Wiltshire.