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Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity

Nailsea

Somerset

C15, porch dated 1712, restored 1861, with church room in course of construction at time of survey Rubble, limestone dressings, slate roofs, stone tiled roof to porch.

Architectural Features

parapet with pierced cusped lozenges, gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles, north west octagonal stair tower, with lancets and similar parapet, pinnacles, spire and weathervane

nave has 4-bay C19 roof of principal rafters, collars, one row of purlins and wall plate, principals rising from stone corbels, two 3-light windows to north and door with triangular head, 4-centred arched north door to stair, leading to left to stone pulpit, to right to former rood loft, octagonal pulpit on stem, each side with 2 blank panels, small 2-light cusped window above

5-bay south arcade has wide pointed arches, piers with 4 shafts and 4 wide hollows, with thin shaft set within, broad band of foliage along the capitals, where rood loft ran, capitals have bull, angel and lion.

Chancel has wide pointed arch to north chapel (now organ chamber), shafts to sides with mouldings as in south arcade, 4-centred arched doorway to chapel by pulpit stair and squint to north

Fittings: octagonal Perpendicular stone font in nave

C18 Royal Arms, painted stone with cherubs, over north door.

Monuments in nave: stone tablet with verse, to Thomas Jenkins, Rector of Backwell, 1626

slate tablet in carved stone surround with flowers and cherubs, to Sarah Walter, 1754

paired brass inscription plates, set in fine carved stone surround with 2 trumpeting angels, to Mary Bennett, 1727

similar stone tablet with inset brass plate and shield, to Ralph Vigers, 1711 and Thomas Tyndall,1720.

In chancel, fine monument with Doric columns and scrolled broken pediment, to Richard Cole, 1650