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Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity

Bottisham

Cambridgeshire

The early C13 chancel, West tower

Architectural Features

West porch survive from an earlier church on the site but in the early C14 the nave and aisles were rebuilt.

West porch, also early C13, with gabled roof, now slated.

Nave, each side of clerestory has four early C14 windows of a single trefoil light in a two-centred arch.

The South aisle, also C14 and with six windows, all restored.

Below the sills are a series of recesses possibly for tombs, in pointed arches, divided by C14 two-stage, gabled buttresses.

The chancel, although C13, has been rendered and the fenestration restored.

The openings from the tower to the nave and porch are all early C13, and of two chamfered orders in two centred arches.

The gable end of the early C13 nave roof is visible in the West end of the nave.

The present seven bay roof is of crown-post construction and late medieval in date.

In the chancel there is a double piscina, early C13, in two bays divided by a colonette with moulded capital and base.

In the South aisle there is an early C14 piscina and sedilia.

Between the nave and chancel is a C15 screen of clunch and limestone, restored in parts.

The North and South aisles both have oak screens of C15, reset and altered.

In North aisle, late C16 or early C17 wall monument of clunch, painted to Thomas Pledger, 1599, and Margaret, his wife, 1598.

Also in North aisle black and white marble wall monument to Leonellus and Dorothea Allington, children of William and Elizabeth Allington.

Fine white and grey marble standing wall monument.

Also in South aisle wall monument: Soame Jenyns, 1787 and his wives Mary and Elizabeth, 1796, white marble signed J Bacon.

Reset in South wall of South aisle is a stone panel, painted with figure of child and recording gift of school by Sir Roger Jenyns in 1730.