Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 May 2001. Church.

Church of the Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
sleeping-wall-jet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 May 2001
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Romanesque-style church with Gothic detailing, dating from the 19th century. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with Bath stone dressings, covered by slate roofs with overhanging eaves. The main entrance is at the west end, featuring a round-headed doorway with a single order of shafts, waterleaf capitals, a tympanum bearing a low-relief cross, and double boarded doors. Above the doorway are three stepped round-headed windows with a sill band. The eaves project deeply, originally supported by brackets with arch-braced bargeboards (now removed). The nave, comprising four bays, and the two-bay chancel have similar round-headed windows. The chancel's east window is a three-light design with plate tracery, and its eaves retain arched-braced bargeboards.

A vestry adjoins the north side of the chancel, featuring an end stack, two-light side windows with shouldered heads, and a doorway with a similar head. Stone steps on the east side of the vestry lead down to a crypt.

Inside, the nave has a boarded wagon roof, and beyond a pointed chancel arch, the chancel has a keeled wagon roof. On the north side of the chancel is a round-headed arch leading to an organ chamber, and a shouldered doorway to the vestry. A glazed wooden porch screen stands at the west end of the nave.

The interior walls and roofs are entirely covered in painted decoration. In the nave, a moulded band runs beneath the roof, followed by a painted acanthus frieze and then a band depicting fictive blocks. Between the windows are biblical scenes within painted Gothic arches. The window reveals are painted, some embellished with painted memorial inscriptions, and beneath the sills is a further band of decoration. The west wall displays similar decoration, with biblical sayings enclosed in painted arches. The chancel's decoration is of a similar style but more elaborate, featuring gilding on the painted arches and a painted band imitating wall hangings at dado level. The roof above the sanctuary has particularly rich painted decoration.

A slender round font, dated 1900, has a blind arcade around its bowl. The pulpit is constructed of polychrome marble and is also decorated with blind arcading. The church contains wooden pews and choir stalls, as well as low wood and wrought iron altar rails.

The windows contain good contemporary stained glass, including depictions of the Transfiguration, Crucifixion, and Ascension in the east window. The north and south chancel windows represent the Trinity. The west window portrays biblical scenes and figures of the Bath family; the north nave windows depict the four Evangelists; and the south nave windows show Old Testament prophets.

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