Church Of Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity is a church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th and 14th centuries. It was largely rebuilt between 1868 and 1870 in the Decorated style by JM & H Taylor. The church is constructed of coursed gritstone rubble with gritstone dressings, and has plain tile roofs, stone coped gables, and parapets.

The church comprises a western tower, nave, north nave aisle, chancel aisle, a south porch, and chancel. The tower is of three stages, with a central buttress to the west featuring a pair of lancet windows above. Twin semi-circular headed bell openings are present on all sides, with clock faces below to the north and south. A moulded stringcourse and parapets topped with 14th-century ridgeback coped embattlements with steeple corner finials rise above. A pointed 19th-century mullioned and transomed window with reticulated tracery is found on the north side. The north elevation also features a three-light, flat-headed window with trefoil-headed lights and a dripmould with angular scroll label stops. A triple-stepped buttress sits to the east, followed by two similar windows and buttresses. A chamfered, pointed 19th-century doorcase with a dripmould and a single light, trefoil-headed window are located to the east. Further east is a chamfered four-centred arch door with a square dripmould and a two-light ogee cusped window with a transom, topped by a low parapet wall. The roof is divided between the nave and chancel. The east chancel aisle window is a 19th-century pointed mullion and transom window with panel tracery. A 19th-century three-light east window with cusped intersecting tracery is located to the south. The chancel has triple-stepped corner buttresses and corner steeple finials.

On the south elevation, a tall cusped lancet with a four-centred arch light below a transom is positioned to the east, with a dripmould above. A chamfered, pointed 19th-century doorcase and a triple-stepped buttress follow, and a two-light transomed window is situated to the west. A large gabletted, triple-stepped buttress marks the corner of the nave. Beyond, a three-light, flat-headed, transomed window with trefoil-headed lights above and four-centred arched lights below is visible, along with a similar window near the south porch. The south porch has a plinth, a moulded, pointed doorcase, and stepped, blind, cusped panels above. The inner door incorporates reused 12th-century voussoirs from the original church, depicting a tree with a lion and hog on either side.

Inside, the 14th-century chamfered, pointed tower arch has moulded capitals. The three-bay north arcade, heavily restored, has stepped and chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with simple capitals. The 19th-century chancel arch has a chamfered soffit and is supported on corbelled-out red marble columns with lily capitals. The chancel features a pointed archway and a piscina. The east window contains stained glass from 1872. A north aisle window, dated 1878, is by Morris & Co. The church has 19th-century roofs with cusped timbering and contemporary pews. Two Ashford marble tombs are present, one commemorating the Greens of 1846 and the other Henry Watson, founder of the marble industry, of 1786. A hatchment from 1724 is displayed in the tower. A 14th-century octagonal font with a quatrefoil stem is also present.