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Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity

Rolleston CP

Nottinghamshire

C12, C13, C14, chancel restored 1878, tower restored 1889, further late C19 restoratioins.

Architectural Features

Angle buttressed C12

C14 tower set on a moulded plinth and of 4 stages with bands.

There are 8 gargoyles.

The west wall has a single ogee arched light originally C12, recut C14.

There are 4 C14 bell chamber openings each has 2 pointed arched openings surmounted by a further 2similar openings.

In the C14 ashlar clerestory are 4 windows each with 2 arched lights under a flat arch.

The north chancel has a single lancet, to the left is a Caernarvon arched doorway and further left a C14 window with 2 ogee arched and cusped lights, each light with 2 decorative orbs, under a flat arch with hood mould and human head label stops.

The hood mould is decorated with fleuron and there is a single central carved grotesque head over, with a single similar worn head under the window.

The south chancel has 2 C14 windows each with 2 ogee arched lights, cusped tracery under a flat arch and hood mould.

The south wall with single C14 gargoyle, has 3 windows each with 2 arched and cusped lights, flat arch, hood mould and head label stops, mainly human.

To the left of that on the east side is a single angel's head carved in shallow relief.

Inner round and chamfered arched C12 doorway with impost bands and worn hood mould decorated with billet.

4 bay late C13 nave arcades with double chamfered arches.

The 2 eastern columns each of 4 shafts with fillets around an octagonal column, the western most with crocket leaf capital and eastern most with stiff leaf capital and further decorated with carved heads.

The north wall of the nave and the south wall of the north aisle have some C12 herringbone masonry.

Octagonal font on splayed octagonal pedestal with C17 cover.

The pulpit, oak chest and altar rails with turned balusters are C17.

C14 traceried screen.

Monuments include in the north chancel to Nicholas Lodge, 1612, a plaque with marble surround decorated with fleuron with a skull on the apron and a shield on the crown.

There is a brass plaque to Rev. John Edwards, 1804.

In the south chancel is a damaged C17 ashlar monument to Luke Williamson, the sides decorated with scrolls and the crown with an angel's head and wings.

In thenorth aisle are fragments of C13 ashlar memorials decorated with stylised crosses with a monument to John Twentyman, 1774, in the north wall, a fragment of decoratively carved ashlar and a fragment of a C13 floor slab decorated with a cross.

In the south aisle, west wall, is a monument to John Twentyman, 1705, with segmental arched head.

To the right is a small carved fragment.

There are the remains of some C13 floor slabs with several C18 floor slabs.