Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church with substantial fabric dating back to the 12th century, with later additions from the 14th and 15th centuries, and a restoration in 1908. It is constructed of flattish, coursed stone with ashlar dressings, with a tiled roof and stone-slate eaves. The church comprises a nave, chancel, a west tower, and a porch.

The south face of the church features a porch with an unglazed lancet window and an iron bar. Above is a parapet gable with a cross gablet apex, with the roof half-hipped to the right to allow visibility of a window in the tower. The two-stage west tower has a plain plinth, diagonally-set corner buttresses to the lower stage’s west side, and a plain string course. It contains twin lancet windows near the top with trefoil heads, timber louvres, and simply-moulded projecting stone eaves. The roof is pyramidal with lead hips and an iron finial.

The nave has a plinth at the west end, with herringbone-masonry low down on the left side, and a built-up lancet window above. To the right are a two-light window with cinquefoil heads to the lights and a trefoil above, and a built-up plain semi-circular headed doorway with thin stone voussoirs. A similar window is positioned to the right, with the right half of a blocked lancet beyond. A square-set rock-faced ashlar buttress with two offsets is at the right-hand end of the nave; its top dies into a gablet above the eaves, supporting the base of a circular chimney. Wide eaves feature long, scrolled gutter brackets. The parapet gables have a cross-gablet apex to the east with a stone cross finial. The chancel has a catslide extension for an organ to the left, and two lancets to the right. The east gable and eaves are similar to those of the nave.

The interior exhibits a scissor-braced collar-rafter roof in the porch, and a boarded door to the tower with moulded cover strips to the joints. The tower base has a flat boarded ceiling with a bell hole, and below are wall ribs and the springing for an unfinished vault. A wide, moulded arch leads to the nave, which is plastered and plain, with a semi-circular arch leading to the chancel. The chancel jambs are plain with abacus-like capitals. Five irregularly-spaced tie beams, two of which are moulded, support a plastered barrel ceiling. A plastered arch covers a piscina in the chancel; a panelled, boarded ceiling, cambered and moulded, sits above, with bosses at the junctions. A stone font dates to 1920. A 19th-century octagonal wooden pulpit stands on a stem. There is a benefactions board in the base of the tower, and six early 19th-century wall monuments. The interior also features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.