Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built in 1840 for David Ricardo M.P., with alterations made in 1881. It features coursed and squared limestone, with roofs made of Welsh slate and artificial stone slate. The church has a nave without aisles, a northeast tower, and a west chancel, all designed in the Romanesque style.

The east facade includes a central round arched doorway with jamb shafts that have scalloped capitals, flanked by two blank arches. Above this, there is a five-bay blank round arched arcade and a central circular window with looped tracery. The corners are supported by shallow clasping buttresses. The porch at the base of the tower has a round arched doorway.

The belfry features a stylised Lombard frieze below the lower string course, with two round arched recesses on each face and smaller belfry openings within. Corner shafts support the belfry, which has a stone-coped pyramidal roof adorned with grotesque corbels, roll mouldings at the corners and center of each face, and an iron weather-vane finial. The nave windows are round arched and have a zig-zag frieze at the eaves.

Towards the west end, there is a projecting gabled organ-loft with a round arched window recess and a circular window. The west end features a Romanesque triplet. Inside, the nave has a five-bay timber truss roof and a timber panelled balcony at the east end. The large round chancel arch bears the painted lettering: 'The LORD is in His HOLY TEMPLE', and the chancel floor is made of encaustic tiles. Most of the fittings appear to be contemporary with the church's construction, although the organ-loft was added in 1881. There is notable stained glass in the west triplet and two nave windows, created by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

This church is one of two built by Ricardo following the subdivision of the Minchinhampton ecclesiastical parish and reflects his disapproval of Tractarian principles by placing the chancel at the west end.