Church Of The Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a church dating from 1623. It is constructed of local stone rubble, rendered and with Doulting stone dressings, and has a cedar shingle roof between coped gables. The church has a single-cell plan with three bays, and a two-story projecting north porch. The east elevation features a three-light window set within a slight, almost semi-circular arched recess with a label. The south elevation has two three-light, hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with flat heads and labels. The north elevation also has two similar windows, although the lights are trefoil cusped. The third bay contains the porch, which has a cambered, moulded arched doorway under a square label. Shields marked “S/HE” and “1623” are within the spandrels. Above the doorway is a two-light mullioned window to match. Inside the porch is a more elaborate doorway with an original panelled and boarded door. The west end abuts the Manor House. The church is topped by a small bell turret detailed like a full church tower, with two stages above the ridge, offset corner buttresses and battlements, and crowned with a windvane.

The interior is entirely from the 17th century and features a three-centre arched plaster vault with timber ribs and bosses bearing shields. There is a painted timber tympanum between the nave and chancel, displaying coats of arms. The East window contains some old stained glass. Below and on the return walls of the chancel are boarded dado panels. The altar rail has simple turned balusters – potentially from the 19th century – and a reredos with the Commandments behind a later crucifix, all crowned with strapwork decoration. Set high in the East wall are two painted stone panels within heavy frames, inscribed "Domus mea" and "Domus orationis”. The nave contains good box pews with hat pegs on the walls, and a fine stone pulpit in a Classical style, featuring panelled pilasters, strapwork decoration, a foliage-decorated frieze and cornice. An octagonal font stands on a 1945-dated stand, but its ogee cupola cover and suspension gear are from the 17th century. A fine monument in a Classical style, constructed of black and white marble with colouring, is located in the chancel. This memorial, featuring Corinthian columns carrying a broken segmental pediment with an achievement of arms, commemorates Henry Southworth, Esquire, Lord of the Manor of Wyke. The inscription declares that he "at his owne charge builte and adorned this Chappell”, and he died in 1625. Archives at Bruton Priory record a chapel “built in the time of the war” during the third quarter of the 12th century.