Church Of The Holy Trinity

SE 4461-4561 9/42 15/3/66

LITTLE OUSEBURN CHURCH LANE (west side) Church of The Holy Trinity

GV I

Church. C11 tower with C15 battlements and pinnacles; C11 chancel with C14 east window; C14 south aisle, arcades and chancel arch; north side rebuilt in C19 to provide organ chamber and vestry; C19 porch. Rubble stone, rebuilt parts in dressed sandstone; stone and timber-framed porch. Stone flag roof. West tower; 2-bay aisled nave, south porch and north organ chamber; chancel and north vestry. 3-stage tower with embattled parapet and pinnacles. Inserted round-headed lights to south and west. Bell openings are paired round-headed louvred lights with centre shafts, above belfry string course. Saddleback roof with water spouts to north and south. Cockerel weathervane. Offset buttresses on moulded bases to aisle west ends. Gabled south porch in front of pointed hollow-chamfered doorway with replacement door on bifur- cated hinges. East of porch are two square-headed windows of two cusped ogee-arched lights. Offset buttresses on moulded bases between windows and to east. Aisle east end window of three cusped ogee-headed lights beneath re-used grave slab lintel with incised wheelcross. North side has two 3-light, square-headed windows to west of cross-gabled organ chamber. Chancel south side has round-arched priest's door between paired lancet windows, all in chamfered openings. West of door is defaced memorial tablet to Edmund Robinson. North side has lean-to vestry incorporating reset square-headed window of three ogee-arched lights. To east are two lancets in chamfered openings. Pointed east window of 5 lights with cusped intersecting tracery and dagger tracery in the head; pointed hoodmould. Tower, south aisle, chancel and east end on plinth. In the west angle of south aisle intermediate buttress are fragments of early sculpture, one a defaced carving of the Virgin and Child, the other part of a cross shaft with carved borders. Coped gables, and wheel gable cross at nave east end. Interior. Round tower arch on imposts, coved on lower side. North and south arcades of double-chamfered, pointed arches on octagonal piers and responds with moulded capitals. Double-chamfered pointed chancel arch on half-octagonal responds with plain imposts, coved on lower sides. Chancel windows deeply splayed. Aumbry recess in chancel south wall beside reset damaged piscina. In south aisle wall, another piscina recess beneath cusped ogee arch. One C16 poppyhead pew end, with carved parrot, re-used on north-west end of choir stalls. Other poppyhead stall ends probably C19.

Listing NGR: SE4523761139