Holy Trinity Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Dwelling.

Holy Trinity Parish Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1985
Type
Dwelling
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The exterior is of bull-faced rubble with freestone dressings and angle buttresses with pinnacles (outer buttresses set diagonally). Slate roofs, gable parapets (finials missing) slightly advanced chancel of 1871 with 3-light Geometric windows flanked by single lancets. Linked hoodmoulds and cill band. Set back gables to left and right with 3-light Decorated windows. Later transverse gables to outer ends with lancet windows. 3- light Decorated windows to north and south faces (above grouped lancets to south). Organ chamber to south side with projecting single storey crenellated vestry and bell frame over. Aisled nave of 1871 with dog-leg roof profile (no clerestory). Transverse gabled bay to east with 2-light bar tracery window flanked by buttresses with set offs. Later style 2-light windows to left. South porch within buttressed tower base (tower and spire in Wellings Thomas' design) and with moulded pointed arch with headstops to hoodmould. Low porch to west front under 3-light Geometrical window, flanked by two occuli. Further pair of 3-light Decorated windows to north nave with gabled north porch beyond with concave moulded jambs. Another entrance (north transept) further east with 3-light Decorated ogee hoodmould and traceried spandrels. East gable end to northrern nave with further 3-light Decorated windows.

Perpendicular style openwork screen to north chancel; polygonal stone pulpit with tapered base; polygonal font at east end of south aisle with Early Gothic foliage detail.

Ashlar interior with some zig-zag tooling. 3.5 bay chancel with ornamental double hammerbeam roof with traceried panels supported on cylindrical shafts with moulded capitals, terminating in heavy corbel bases in south wall and in granite piers to north with detached shafts linked by granite annulettes. Perpendicular arch to organ chamber with traceried spandrels. Boarded and arched braced roof to northern chancel; pointed arched doorway to sacristy with hoodmould. Tall original chancel arch with attached shafts and waterholding bases. Original aisled nave with banded masonry, open trussed roof and crenellated wallplates; rich foliage capitals to cylindrical piers of Early Gothic arcades. Early C14 north arcade with round columns; twin open collar beam roofs with ornamental hammerbeam supports.

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