Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a building with elements dating back to the 11th century, alongside later additions from the 15th, 14th, and 19th centuries, situated in Little Ouseburn. The church features a 11th-century tower with 15th-century battlements and pinnacles, and a 11th-century chancel with a 14th-century east window. The south aisle and chancel arch are from the 14th century, while the north side was rebuilt in the 19th century to incorporate an organ chamber and vestry, accompanied by a 19th-century porch. The church is constructed of rubble stone, with rebuilt sections in dressed sandstone. The roof is covered with stone flags.

The west tower is three-stage, with an embattled parapet and pinnacles, containing inserted round-headed lights to the south and west. Paired round-headed bell openings, each containing louvred lights and centre shafts, sit above a belfry string course. The tower roof is saddleback, with water spouts. A cockerel weathervane is present. Offset buttresses with moulded bases are visible on the west ends of the aisles. The gabled south porch has a pointed, hollow-chamfered doorway with a replacement door on bifurcated hinges. Two square-headed windows, each containing two cusped ogee-arched lights, are located to the east of the porch, accompanied by offset buttresses with moulded bases. The east end of the south aisle has a window of three cusped ogee-headed lights, set beneath a re-used grave slab lintel bearing an incised wheelcross. The north side has two three-light, square-headed windows to the west of the cross-gabled organ chamber. The chancel south side features a round-arched priest's door between paired lancet windows, all within chamfered openings. A defaced memorial tablet to Edmund Robinson is located west of the door. A lean-to vestry, incorporating a reset square-headed window of three ogee-arched lights, is attached to the north side, alongside two lancets in chamfered openings. The pointed east window comprises five lights with cusped intersecting tracery and dagger tracery in the head, beneath a pointed hoodmould. The tower, south aisle, chancel, and east end all stand on a plinth. Fragments of early sculpture are embedded within a buttress in the southwest angle of the south aisle; these include a defaced carving of the Virgin and Child and a section of a cross shaft with carved borders. Coped gables are present, along with a wheel gable cross at the east end of the nave.

Inside, the round tower arch rests on imposts and has a coved lower side. The north and south arcades feature double-chamfered, pointed arches supported by octagonal piers and responds with moulded capitals. The double-chamfered, pointed chancel arch sits on half-octagonal responds with plain imposts, also coved on the lower sides. The chancel windows are deeply splayed. An aumbry recess is visible in the south wall of the chancel, alongside a reset, damaged piscina. A piscina recess with a cusped ogee arch is present in the south aisle wall. A reused 16th-century poppyhead pew end, carved with a parrot, is incorporated into the northwest end of the choir stalls; other poppyhead stall ends are likely from the 19th century.