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Holy Trinity

Hildersham

Cambridgeshire

West tower c.1200

Architectural Features

vaulted sacristy, early C13 nave and south and north aisle with clerestorey rebuilt later C13, north-east vestry late C14.

Nave, with similar quoins may retain some c.1200 fabric, steeply pitched roof, three restored, foiled, square clerestorey lights.

Restored C14 two-light windows with net-tracery repeated in C19 chancel, and large C19 south window of south transept with C14 cross finial resited on parapet gable.

Tower ladder stair medieval, with later rungs.

Four brasses and indents in chancel, from north to south. (1) Small purbeck slab with effigies about 20 inches high.

Beneath the figure of the knight a worn matrix for second shield perhaps Henry Paris Esq d. 1427

his wife Margaret. (2) Purbeck slab with 3 foot high brass of skeleton in shroud slightly mutilated c.1530. (3) Purbeck slab. bareheaded knight in armour with exaggerated elbow-pieces, sword slung in front, lion at feet, with crocketed ogee canopy with cinque-foil cusping terminating in small mutilated Trinity.

Knight was Henry Paris (Cole), dated perhaps 1488, two Paris shields of arms. (4) Purbeck slab with large foliated cross flanked by two kneeling figures, centre-piece octofoil frame with rich sub-coping

Two figures, to right hand a man with long cloak, short tunic and bareheaded, to left hand a lady with long-sleeved gown, head kerchief and cloak.

Brass ascribed to Robt Paris and wife 1379 or 1408 (RCHM).

Coffin lid late C13 or early C14 reset in north wall of chancel, purbeck marble with low relief of cross with trefoiled ends on stepped base.

C15 glass reset in south window of chancel of God the Father and Virgin and Child.

Monuments in south chapel

C13 octagonal bowl with panelled sides of simple trefoiled arches with attached shafts at angles each with moulded caps and bases, supported on central shaft with four octagonal outer shafts each with moulded caps and chamfered bases, it is mentioned in the Versus Libes Arch.

Eliensis c.1278 as 'a font with a lock'.

Early C17 communion table.