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Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity

Cookham

Berkshire

Dates from C12

Architectural Features

Chancel, north chapel and north aisle, added early C13

North arcade of nave, and south aisle added late C13, chancel arch reconstructed at that time

Further altered in early C14

West tower added c1500, C17 and C18 repairs to buttresses and walls

tile gabled roof

Chancel: two round-headed lancets to north and south, on the east wall a three-light window with C19 tracery in early C14 jambs

North chapel and north aisle: on the east a late C17 three-light window with diamond leading

On the north side of the chapel, two C19 lancets, between them a small C19 doorway.To right of these, three plain early C13 lancets with a blocked doorway between the two westernmost, with a two-centred head of two orders, the outer moulded and supported by jamb shafts with stiff leaf capitals

Nave, north side: on left a C19 lancet, and to the right of this a mid C12 round-headed window

South Chapel: on the east a three-light window with C19 tracery and a moulded rear arch with shafted jambs of early C14

To the left of this, an early C14 window with plain tracery under a two-centred head

South aisle: three late C13 windows, the two eastern are of two pointed, uncusped lights

Interior: Chancel, five-bay nave with early C14 roof, with octagonal crown posts and straight braces to a collar purlin, and moulded tie beams

There are some medieval floor tiles at the east end of the chancel

At the south east of the north chapel is a C13 piscina with trefoil head, and a similar at the south east of the south chapel

Monuments: Against the north wall of the chancel is a Purbeck marble table tomb with a vaulted canopy, supported by twisted columns, on the slab of the table, an elaborate brass, showing the tomb to be of Robert Peeke, clerk of the spicery to Henry VI, and his wife, d.1517

In the north chapel, a tablet with small kneeling figures in white relief by Flaxman, to Sir Isaac Pocock, drowned in the Thames 1810

On the south wall of the south chapel an elaborate mural tablet with kneeling figures to Arthur Babham d.1560, surmounted by an entablature, crowned by a shield of his arms.