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the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity

Barrow upon Soar

Leicestershire

Large parish church, Medieval in plan and in much of interior, externally 'Victorian following a restoration and rebuilding West tower, nave with 2 aisles, and clerestory,transepts and chancel.

Architectural Features

Large south porch with embattled parapet and heavy gargoyles.

Chancel has a different and distinctive decorative scheme: buttresses have small projecting grotesque carvings, decorative frieze (foliage, beasts etc) below parapet and a later decorated window tracery pattern, with spare tracery lines.

Interior has nave arcade of 4 bays, with double chamfered arches on round piers, late C13.

Easternmost piers have 4 shafts and relate to C14 building of transepts (existing transepts are C19).

Perpendicular clerestory and nave roof - low pitched cambered trusses with traceried panels, supported on angel brackets, and with gilded bosses.

Large chancel has fine carved choir stalls , turned C17 altar rails, and an ornate stone reredos, representing the Last Supper, heavily undercut, also sedilia, 1884.

East window, a memorial to various C17 local figures is by Powell and Co., 1890.

So is the stained glass window in the south aisle, C1929.

Chancel contains memorial to Theophilus Cave, d.

1656, in mannerist style with well-turned epigram.

In south transept, a memorial to Martha Utber, 1745, a kneeling female figure at a prie-dieu in a surround with pilasters, broken pediment and arms.