Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church dating from 1844, designed by T.H. Wyatt. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a fishscale tiled roof and coped verges, and is built in a Neo-Norman style. The church follows a cruciform plan without aisles, and includes a north porch. The gabled porch has a zig-zag moulded round-arched opening on a pair of shafts, a roll-moulded doorway with further zig-zag detailing, and planked double doors with ornamental hinges. The nave windows are situated high above a string course, featuring one round-arched window with attached shafts to the right and three to the left, with a chevron frieze and pilaster buttresses to the eaves. The north transept has two two-light round-arched windows with attached shafts on both the east and west sides, and triple round-arched windows to the north, with clasping buttresses. The chancel ends in an apsidal east end with oculi (small circular windows) and three round-arched windows. A small, gabled vestry is attached to the south side with a shouldered doorway and one round-arched window. The south transept mirrors the north, but features a shouldered doorway in a roll-moulded arched surround on the west side. The south side of the nave has five round-arched windows with attached shafts, with a circular stair turret to the west gallery positioned on the south west corner, a shouldered doorway and lancets, and a conical roof. The west end has two round-arched windows with stylised capitals below the string course, and a pair of windows in a round-arched panel enclosed by triple shafts above the gallery. A low crossing tower has a square stair turret on the south west corner, corner shafts, a row of five round-arched windows with attached shafts and louvres on each side, a clock face on the north side, a corbel table with gargoyles, and a plain parapet.

Inside, the nave has a five-bay tie-beam truss roof with curved V-struts, supported by stone corbels, and a polychrome tiled floor. A west gallery is accessed by a three-bay ashlar arcade with round arches on cylindrical piers; the front of the gallery features relief-carved Royal Arms. The crossing is rib-vaulted with round arches on half-piers featuring stylised capitals. A low stone wall, decorated with zig-zag coping, runs across the chancel steps. The apsidal east end contains trefoiled niches with paintings of the Twelve Apostles, including St Matthew depicted in mosaic and painted tiles. Stencilled decoration adorns the walls, along with a frieze of quatrefoils. A stone reredos depicts a Crucifixion scene below an aedicule, and the timber roof has beams radiating from the main tie-beam truss. A Lady Chapel, located in the north transept, includes a piscina on the east wall, with good stained glass dating from the 1880s and 1900s. Fittings include brass and cast-iron communion rails, a square stone pulpit on a compound pier base, and a square stone font on a short pedestal at the west end. Early electric light fittings are present. Good stained glass windows in the east end commemorate the Phipps family of Chalcot House. The church cost £3262 in 1844.