The Holy Trinity

C17 west tower added or rebuilt.

North porch, C17.

Clay tile roofs with stone slate eaves.

North wall has 2 windows, E.of 3 cinquefoiled lights in a square head with moulded reveals, C15.

North doorway, C13 restored has jambs and a pointed arch of one chamfered order.

South doorway, C13, now blocked, has chamfered jambs and pointed head.

Further east is a blocked C13 lancet.

West tower, C17, two stages with a plain parapet and without buttresses.

In the east wall is a reset C15 doorway with nave moulded jambs and pointed head.

The east window has triple lancets, these are internally shafted and with capitals in C13 style.

Roofs: chancel has a steeply pitched arch braced roof with high collars, carried on carved stone corbels.

Fittings: font, Purbeck marble, tapeing octagonal bowl with 2 panels with pointed heads in each face, central stem with 8 C19 subsidiary shafts, original base, C13.

Wall tablets, several to the Richards family, C19, see R.C.H.M. Pulpit: of oak, polygonal with moulded panels and moulded cornice, C18. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 327 (1)).

SY7585 : Holy Trinity, Warmwell: pulpit

© Basher Eyre