Architectural Features
freestone plinth, diagonal buttresses, string courses, gargoyles at corners (very worn at south east), embattled parapet with plain pinnacle at north west corner.
The square, crenellated tower of Holy Trinity Church at Doynton bears the date 1644 on its south-west buttress, signalling a mid-17th-century rebuild that reused 15th-century gargoyles and opened into a transeptal space opposite the Bury Chapel on the north side.
Chapel has 2-light north window with trefoil heads and flat hood mould, 2-light C14 Perpendicular east window.
Chancel has 2-light north window, 3-light to south and 5-light to east, small stone carving above east window, possibly C11/C12, found during renovations of 1893.
The history of Holy Trinity church has many entries and some oddities. Perhaps the strangest came during the tenure of Rev. Lewis Clutterbuck, who began a series of improvements in 1864. He lengthened the church by 6m (15 ft) and created the north aisle; he also removed the singing gallery, installed the organ (which reduced visibility for the congregation) and ordered new pews. This effort caused bankruptcy, which his successors had to bear. In part of this major renovation, the nave arches were rebuilt and the bases left for subsequent carving. Sadly, the funding crisis forced the stonemasons to be cancelled - leaving some blank facets in a rough state!
High pointed arch to chancel with hood mould, low stone screen to sides, lower pointed arch between aisle and chapel with panels carved with trefoil-headed recesses on soffit of arch
chancel has blind arch to south repeating chapel arch, roof divided by high arch, 5 bays to east and west, to east with rosette bosses and carved flowers on wall-plate, C19 sedilia to north and south.
Fittings: pews, pulpit, lecterns and Perpendicular octagonal stone font all of C19.
Hatchment in aisle to Davy family who lived at Tracy Park (q.v.) 1820-1926, showing that the deceased fought at battle of Talavera, 1809
In respect of the death of Gen. Sir William Davy, K. C. H., C. B. in 1856, this hatchment was placed on the north wall of Holy Trinity. The family coat of arms is shown in the centre; where a husband and wife have coats the convention is that the arms of the deceased have a black background, with the surviving spouse's white. Here the hatchment marks the fact that Sir William survived his first wife (left) but not his second (right).
memorial brass in chancel with admonitory verse, to John Atwood, 1707 and other members of the family
two C18 monuments on south wall of nave marble classical monument with Ionic columns, broken scrolled pediment, urn and skulls, to Elizabeth Langton, date indecipherable, by Stanton of London, and stone monument with Ionic pilasters, broken segmental pediment, urn and putti, to Joseph Jackson, 1719 and other members of the family.
4 roundels of early glass set in window in north aisle, showing symbols of the 4 evangelists.