Church Of The Holy Trinity

ST74NW WHATLEY CP CHANTRY

3/201 Church of the Holy Trinity

11.3.68

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Church. 1844-46 by George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt, further work by William George Brown of Frome, for James Fussell. Doulting ashlar, lead sheeting roofs. Free Decorated style. 4-bay nave, lower 2 bay chancel; both with gargoyles and angel figures, some holding Fussell edge tools; elaborate South porch, ogee headed outer door opening. West end has lancets flanking a central buttress ascending to a polygonal bell lantern, an ogee headed opening in each face, above a crocketed spire. Nave windows of 2-lights, chancel has lancets, East window of 3 lights, Geometrical tracery. Chancel has priests door to South with ogee crocketed canopy. Plastered interior, collar beam roof to nave, chancel under plain wagon roof. Nave contains re-sited rood screen on North wall, octagonal font with crocketed niches, small organ by Gray and Davidson, and elaborate stone pulpit. Chancel has tile floor, choir stalls and carved misericords, reredos with crocketed finials and niches containing paintings of angels, by W.L.T. Collins of Frome. North corner has niche containing tomb of Jacob Fussell. East window has glass in medieval style, remaining openings have simple stained glass. (Robin Athill, Old Mendip, 1964).

Listing NGR: ST7193247021