Holy Trinity

MATERIALS: Coursed sandstone and siltstone, with grey and buff freestone dressings, some dressed sandstone quoins, under tile roofs.

EXTERIOR: The church is of neo-Norman character.

The principal feature of interest is the round-head south doorway of late C12, with panelled door of the C19, inside the porch.

The chancel has blocked square-headed windows of the C16 or C17 in the south and east walls, replaced by a simple pointed window in the east wall.

These ceilings may have medieval roofs behind.

Nave and aisle have floors of red and black tiles and cast-iron grilles over heating pipes.

The chancel has a floor of re-used grave slabs and modern tiles, and a modern panelled wainscot.

Box pews in the nave and aisle have plain ends except for roundels decorated with various motifs including quatrefoils and 6-pointed star, and carved poppy heads.

The tub font is said to be C12 but is not lead-lined and is broken on one side.

The C17 polygonal pulpit stands on a pedestal, and has richly ornamented panels, some renewed.

There are few memorials.

Dominating the east wall of the aisle is a hatchment to Sir Robert Lawley of 1834.

In the nave south wall are a wooden 1914-18 war memorial plaque and a brass plaque to Harry Lister, missing on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

HISTORY: A church built in the C12, of which the south doorway is the only surviving feature of that period.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of the Holy Trinity, Bourton, is listed Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * It has architectural detail of special interest including survival of early fabric, especially the C12 doorway, and C18 ceilings. * Interior fixtures include C12 font, C17 pulpit and reading desk and a well-preserved seating plan of the mid C19. * It has group value with Bourton Manor of 1874 by Norman Shaw.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register.