Church Of Holy Trinity

YEARSLEY - SE 57 SE 6/81 Church of Holy Trinity - - II

Chapel of ease. Dated 1839. Rubble, Welsh slate roof. Apsidal chancel, 3-bay nave with west bellcote, south vestry, north porch. Porch: studded board door with applied tracery to door and tympanum panel above, in chamfered pointed- arched ashlar doorway with hood mould; above in the gable, recessed plaque with unicorn's head and date; inner door of 6 panels, coved cornice inside porch. Flanking porch, two 2-light pointed-arched nave windows with Y tracery. Gabled bellcote has space for 1 bell and is corbelled out on buttresses flanking blind lancet opening. To left, canted chancel with, on 3 sides, a single-light pointed- arched window with hood mould, the arch containing ogee tracery with cusping; the eastern side rises up to a goblet with taller window and cross at apex. Vestry: west window of 2 pointed lights. Interior: rubble walls; double-chamfered pointed chancel arch without responds; ribbed vault to apse; nave has king-post roof trusses; c.1700 altar-rail of column-on-vase turned balusters; simple tub-on-shaft front; pitch-pine pews, part of C17 chest used as back rest to seat in centre of last row of pews. VCH ii, p.14.

Listing NGR: SE5852974375