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The Holy Trinity

Allington

Lincolnshire

SK 8440-8540 ALLINGTON MANOR LANE (north side) 11/7 Church of the Holy Trinitv 20.9.66 G.V. II* Parish Church, c.1150, C13, C15, C16, late C18, c.1914.

Architectural Features

Coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar, red brick with slate, plain tile and lead roofs.

Early C13 west front with plinth, flanked by angle buttresses of 3 stages with central buttress of 5 stages.

Gables flanking turret have fragmentary C12 corbelling on north and south returns.

C14 north aisle with red brick band of c.1914 running along the top with C14 coping re-set above.

Single C15 window to east with 2 lights with trefoil heads under flattened triangular head.

C20 brick chimney, C15 ironstone clerestorey with quoins and 2 C15 rectangular windows each of 2 trefoiled lights and with hood moulds.

Limestone moulded eaves and 2 large gargoyles with coped parapet above.

North vestry of c.1914 re-using C15 fragments, of limestone and ironstone, with moulded eaves and battlements and east window of 3 cusped and pointed lights.

Chancel of late C18 brick with ashlar quoins and decorated eaves with reset and blocked early C13 lancet.

To the east, a C13 lancet with small head at apex, small C13 pointed, chamfered doorway

C12 round headed window to the west of that.

Nave has higher limestone and ironstone plinth with C18 brick above with C16 oval ashlar window re-set

C13 2 light window with lozenge above, re-set beyond.

Further west is an early C14 re-set window of 3 lights with reticulated tracery.

Moulded eaves with large gargoyle and ashlar parapet above.

C15 ironstone porch with limestone bands and moulded plinth.

C12 round headed doorway with simple roll mouldings, single columnar jambs with scalloped capitals and moulded abaci carved with pairs of tiny heads.

Above porch roof is a gargoyle.

Interior mid C12 north arcade of 4 bays with round piers and columnar responds with plain moulded capitals.

Highly carved C17 chair.

C17 pulpit of 2 decorated panels with daisyheads and geometrical patterning.

Remnant of plain C17 wainscotting on south wall by pulpit.

Early C20 lectern incorporates panel from C15 screen with ornate finial and tracery.

C17 gallery, heavily restored in C20 with geometrical and foliage patterns and daisyheads.

Late C15 octagonal font with panels containing heads, flowers and a shield on an octagonal support with deeply cut foliage in small panels.

2 fragments near font, one of C12 chevron, the other of C11 plaited cable.

South side of chancel has ornate marble monument to Thomas and Car.

Williamson, 1690 with similar one on north side to Thomas Williamson 1688.

Southside has plaque of 1656 to Robert Clarke, and on north side ornate black and white monument to Lady Welby, died 1826.

To west of it an almost illegible grey marble monument with gold paint and cherub, dated 1669.

2 monuments on north side of nave, to the east of grey and white marble, to Mary Williamson, died 1763, to to the west of black and white marble to Sir William Earl Welby, died 1815.