Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a parish church located in Challacombe Barton. The west tower likely dates to the early 16th century, while the nave and chancel were entirely rebuilt in 1850 and subsequently restored between 1874 and 1875. The church is constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with gable ends, an apex gablet to the chancel, and a cross at the chancel end.

The church comprises a west tower, nave, chancel, vestry, and a south porch. The two-stage west tower features a crenellated parapet, angle buttresses to the north, west, and south-west, a single buttress to the south-east, and a polygonal stair turret to the north-east. Bell openings, each with 4-centred arches, are located on the north and south sides (two-light), the west and east sides (single-light), all with louvres and hoodmoulds. A quatrefoil tracery window is located on the west side, above a blocked entry with a hollow-chamfered 4-centred doorway and a relieving arch of stone voussoirs. The south side of the nave has a buttress with ashlar offsets. Two windows of two trefoil-headed lights flank a gabled porch with a slate roof, fleur-de-lis apex gablet, and a pointed chamfered arched doorway with a moulded and stopped surround to the inner doorway containing a plank door. A single trefoil-headed light window is located on the chancel. A pointed arched three-light east window with a hoodmould is also present, as is a window to the vestry with two shoulder-headed lights. A stack features ashlar quoins and a crenellated cap; a pointed arched doorway with a chamfered surround is on the west side. The north side of the nave has trefoil-headed windows, two of two-lights, one single light, with a buttress at the west end. Inside, there is an unmoulded semi-circular tower arch, a hollow-chamfered surround to the 4-centred arched stair turret doorway, and arch-braced trusses to the nave (4) and chancel (2). A pointed chancel arch has an ovolo-moulded inner arch, corbelled out with short marble colonettes and foliated capitals. A trefoil-headed piscina has a hoodmould. Flanking walls showcase a stone reredos with a small quatrefoil and foliated pattern, including ball flower ornamentation to the dado rail. The reredos incorporates three staggered pointed arches supported on short marble colonettes, fleur-de-lis finials, cusped inner arches and quatrefoil panels to a stone altar, along with patterned altar tiles. A wineglass-style pulpit, featuring a human head corbel on the tapered base and cusped headed blind panelling to each facet, offers access to the vestry via a shoulder-headed doorway. Stained glass is present in the east window, the east end of the nave north side (dated 1902), and the west end of the nave south side (dated 1901). An early font, likely from the 14th century, features twin-pointed arched blind tracery on each facet of its octagonal bowl, supported on a circular stem with short colonettes at each corner.