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Holy Trinity, Our Lady, And St John The Baptist

Monk Sherborne, Hampshire

C12, C13

Architectural Features

The surviving part of the priory church comprises the Early English choir and the Norman Tower, with fragments embodied in a wall on a line westwards from the south-west corner of the tower

The choir has 4 tall lancets on each side at the east end, a triple lancet east window, and at the western end 2 low pointed arches on rectangular piers (once opening onto side chapels) now walled on the outside to form recesses, 3 containing medieval slabs and one a fine C13 wooden effigy of a cross-legged knight

There are floor slabs, C15 pews

a small area of north wall with fragments of C13 wall painting, and a trefoil-headed piscina

Externally, the roofing is of tile, with a low-pitched slate roof above the vestry

A C15 font occupies the centre of the floor beneath the tower, and there are several medieval coffin slabs on the east side

Photo coming soon