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the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity

Embleton

Northumberland

Lower part of tower late C11 or early C12

Architectural Features

nave arcades early C13

aisles rebuilt and tower heightened early C14

porch later C15 or early C16

C14 style, the chancel with Geometrical tracery.

Flat-topped porch with moulded 4-centred arch, carved hoodmould stops and niche on angel corbel above

Interior shows old stone benches, C19 roof with carved bosses and C19 doorway with boarded double doors, below weathering of earlier porch roof.

Five C12

C13 cross slabs set in internal walls

(other medieval fragments set into internal walls of vestry).

5-light east window flanked by gabled angel buttresses, beneath coped gable with ring cross finial.

Above arch traces of a blocked door and weathering of low-pitched late medieval roof.

Vault ribs cut rear arches of blocked early Norman windows in side walls.

eastern responds have foliage carving.

Carved broach stops to outer order chamfer

hoodmoulds with large nutmeg ornament, partly re-cut, and carved stops.

East wall of south aisle shows three brackets, two with carved heads, and rebated aumbry.

C19 double-chamfered chancel arch with dogtooth, on C13 carved corbels, under weathering of steeply-pitched C13 nave roof

plain late medieval roofs to aisles.

carved stone reredos.

Carved 1896 pulpit.

Chancel glass 1884 by Kempe

east window with Northumbrian Saints, side windows with Evangelists, Patriarchs, Prophets and Fathers of the Latin Church.

Carved C19 font in C13 style.

Old Craster hatchments over arch to Craster Chapel and under tower.

Monuments: C18 ledger slabs in chancel.

At west end of south aisle wall tablets to Mrs Grace Edwards d. 1696, Anthony Wilson (Custom Officer at Craster) d. 1718 and Joseph Wood (Major of the Northumberland militia) d. 1810.