Church of the Holy Trinity

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a late 19th-century church built of largely rendered local lias limestone rubble, with 1893 windows of Bath stone and Welsh slate roofs. The church comprises a nave with a west tower and a south porch, and a chancel.

The nave’s south wall features an 1893 window of two trefoil-headed lights, flanked by a gabled porch with a pointed arch and dripmould, topped with a coped gable and cross. Inside the porch are benches, and the wall displays 18th-century memorials. The nave has a late 19th-century roof with trusses, and late 19th-century encaustic tiled flooring. A round-headed arch, dating from around 1150, provides access to the church, decorated with billet moulding terminating in grotesque heads, quarter columns with capitals, and a plank door from 1893. An 18th-century wall tablet is located to the right of the eastern window. The north nave wall has a slight batter, with a single 1893 light window on the east and a shorter single light window to the west. The east gable has a coped gable with a finial.

The chancel’s south wall contains two single trefoil-headed lights from around 1300; the western window has a transom and shutters, possibly for a sanctus bell. A similar window is located in the north chancel wall. The east gable window is from 1893, featuring three stepped lights with trefoil heads and trefoils above the flanking lights. The chancel’s roof is lower than the nave’s and has a coped gable with a cross finial.

The west tower has a saddleback roof and battered walls. Its south wall contains a slit window and a single chamfered rectangular belfry opening; the north wall has a similarly shaped rectangular belfry opening. The west wall has a square window at the base of the tower and a slit window in the gable, and an arched opening in the gable to the east. Evidence suggests a change in the masonry above the slit windows. The churchyard, situated to the south-east of the church, contains 18th- and mid-19th-century memorials.

Inside, the church is plastered and painted throughout. The nave has a 6-bay double windbrace and arched braced collar roof from around 1893, while the chancel roof is similar but has a ceiled waggon. A moulded and arched tomb recess from around 1300 is set into the north nave wall. Other interior features include a font from around 1200 with roll mouldings, an upper Rood door with a 4-centred timber head and brattishing, a 12th-century semi-circular chancel arch with roll moulding that breaks into four chevrons in the head, and a low stone screen base projecting slightly on each side of the arch jambs. The nave floor consists of wood block and late 19th-century encaustic tiles. A 1893 pulpit remains, though the pews have been replaced by chairs. A Sutton stone grave slab from around 1200, rediscovered in 1893, is set into the chancel floor. A semi-circular arch leads from the nave to the tower. An 18th-century and a mid-19th-century memorial are located in the nave, one on each side of the south door. A columned stoup is situated in the tower.