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the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity

Long Melford

Suffolk

A magnificent example of late perpendicular clerestoryed nave and chancel rebuilt on the site of an earlier church between circa 1460 and circa 1495.

Architectural Features

The 5 west bays have the C14 piers of the earlier church.

The Lady Chapel, added to the east end, was built by the Cloptons of Kentwell Hall in 1496 and the west tower was built between 1898 and 1903 to the designs of the architect G F Bodley.

A notable feature of the exterior is the extensive series of memorial inscriptions exhorting prayer for the souls of the many who contributed to the building of the church and their families, which extend in decorative bands round the church.

The clerestory 1481, the south chapel 1484 and the Lady Chapel 1496.

The nave and chancel has fine moulded arch braced cambered beams with carved spandrels with moulded ridge beams, purlins and joists.

The Clopton chapel, to the north of the chancel has a number of good C15

C16 brasses and the Clopton chantry which adjoins on the east has the monument to John Clopton , a plain tomb chest of Purbeck marble.

In the chancel, immediately south of the altar is the large and elaborate monument to Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls , designed by Cornelius Cure, master mason to the crown.