Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is an Anglican parish church largely dating to the 13th century, with 15th-century alterations and a significant restoration in 1886 by T.H. Wyatt. It is constructed of dressed limestone, with a tiled roof featuring fishscale tile bands. The church comprises a nave, a south aisle, a north tower over the entrance, north and south transepts, and a chancel.

The north tower features a hollow-chamfered pointed arch with a hoodmould leading to a pair of 19th-century doors. The tower has diagonal buttresses, string courses, and a moulded plinth. It contains a 2-light square-headed Perpendicular window and a blocked round-headed window on the second stage, a pointed Perpendicular window on the north side of the bellstage, and a square-headed window on the west side, all featuring louvres. A circular clock face is on the north side. The bellstage has clasping buttresses, a 19th-century cornice with gargoyles, and a battlemented parapet with a pyramidal tiled roof. The north side of the nave has a cusped lancet window to the right and two to the left. A 16th-century north chapel, now used as a vestry, has a 2-light square-headed Perpendicular window with lozenge terminals to the hoodmould, and a diagonal buttress to the gabled east end which contains a 2-light Tudor-arched doorway. The 13th-century chancel has two ogee cusped lancets to the north side and a 19th-century three-light east window with a hoodmould. The south side of the chancel has an ogee lancet either side of a pointed priest’s door. The 16th-century south transept has a 2-light square-headed window with cusped lights and a hoodmould to east, a 3-light window to south, diagonal buttresses, and a coped verge. Late 17th and 18th-century memorial tablets are set into the south wall, commemorating members of the Good family.

The 1886 south aisle has a lean-to slate roof, trefoil-headed lancets, and a reset 16th-century 2-light cusped window to the right. The west end of the aisle has a 19th-century three-light window designed in a 16th-century style. The west end of the nave has a 13th-century two-light pointed window with cusped lights.

The interior includes a porch with a hollow-chamfered inner doorway with broach stops and a 19th-century door. The tower floor is supported on stone corbels. The nave’s 4-bay roof has 19th-century arch-braced collar trusses on hammer beams, with stone floors and a cusped pointed stoup on the north wall. A 19th-century south arcade, designed in a 13th-century style, features double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers. The 16th-century north and south transepts have deep chamfered pointed arches from the nave, scissor rafter roofs, and a stone tablet commemorating Alice Good, who died in 1735, featuring carved volutes and a segmental-headed cornice on the south wall. A double chamfered chancel arch leads to the chancel, which has a 19th-century polychrome tiled floor and a boarded and ribbed wagon roof with carved bosses. A pointed chamfered piscina is located on the south wall. The church is fitted with 19th-century pews and a pulpit. A 13th-century cylindrical stone font with roll moulding is also present, alongside stained glass from the 1890s in the south aisle and glass from the 1920s in the chancel.