Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

A small Victorian parish church built in simple lancet style, comprising a nave and chancel with a west-end bellcote, north porch, and south vestry projection. The exterior displays rough-dressed, snecked slatestone elevations with pale sandstone dressings and steep slate roofs. The gable parapets are slab-coped and kneelered, with decorative gable cross bases.

The north side of the nave features a large porch to the right with a tall pointed-arched entrance embellished with hollow-chamfered and ball-flower detail. Engaged columns flank the entrance, each with naturalistic foliage capitals. A moulded returned label with carved head stops frames the doorway. To the right of the porch are paired cusped lancets; to the left is a single lancet, followed by a pair of lancets and another single lancet beyond. A modern slate dedication plaque is inserted to the right of the latter window. The south side contains similar windows arranged as two pairs, each with a single lancet to its right. At the far right stands a single-bay vestry projection with a triple cusped lancet group to the south gable and a Tudor-arched, chamfered entrance with boarded door on the east return; a reduced lateral chimney projects from the west return.

The west end displays flush stepped buttresses to the north and south; the southern buttress bears an incised Bench Mark. A large triangular tracery rose window with three cusped occuli within a moulded label with carved foliated stops dominates this elevation. A moulded stringcourse at high dado level returns onto both flanking buttresses, terminating there. An elegant octagonal bellcote corbels out over the west wall, surmounted by a stone spire with ball-flower and ribbed decoration. The spire rises from an open arched upper storey. The chancel is stepped down from the nave and set back, occupying one bay's length, with a triple lancet group to the east end featuring ogee heads, and single lancets to the north and south sides.

Interior

The nave is aisless with a five-bay arched-braced collar truss roof, the trusses carried down onto simple stone corbels. Fixed pine pews in simple Gothic style line the nave, with a central lozenge-tiled pavement of black, yellow, and red tiles. Similar box pews form the choirstalls at the east end of the nave, oriented to face inwards. A modern wooden pulpit stands in the nave, alongside a painted late 19th-century wooden pedal organ set within a niche on the south wall in simple Gothic style. To the left is a plain Tudor-arched entrance to the vestry with a boarded door. At the west end stands an Early English-style painted stone font of conventional octagonal type with hollow-chamfered edges to the bowl and a cluster-column base on an octagonal plinth.

The large chancel arch displays chamfered and moulded detail with engaged half-columns to the inner faces, terminating in naturalistic foliage capitals. Two steps lead up to the chancel, which has a plain red tiled pavement, with the stepped-up sanctuary beyond also red-tiled. The chancel roof comprises two bays with collar trusses featuring stopped-chamfered principals and collars. Simple oak altar rails are carried on four wrought iron scrolled supports. A simple panelled oak reredos commemorates the parishioners lost in the Second World War.

Stained and Painted Glass

The east window displays scenes of the Passion over three lights in memory of the Breese family. On the north wall of the nave, figurative panels over two lights depict Christ as Sower and as Good Shepherd, commemorating the Reverend David Morgan (died 1895). The south wall contains a fine two-light Arts and Crafts Annunciation in memory of Anne Louisa Loveday of Castell Deudraeth (died 1904).