Holy Trinity
The Folly
Gloucestershire
C14 tower, rest rebuilt between 1508 and 1540 by the Rector, Thomas Key
Architectural Features
projecting stair turret for pulpit and rood stair, with weathered pyramidal cap
Nave has Perpendicular stone pulpit to north with crocketed and vaulted pinnacled canopy, depressed 4-centred arched door leading to stair to pulpit and newel stair to rood loft, similar door remaining at upper level.
Fittings: C19 Perpendicular oak pulpit, carved wooden pews and lecterns in chancel.
Carved reredos panelling to each side of altar, similar dado panelling at east end of aisle.
Font in nave, early C16, octagonal bowl enriched with quatrefoils in circles and 3 or 4 leaf flower centres, plain octagonal pillar.
ST7572 : Holy Trinity, Cold Ashton - Font
Royal arms of George I on west wall of nave.
Monuments in nave include Baroque tablet with swags, putti and shield, to Evan Jones, 1738
Marble monument with reeded pilasters in aisle, to John Gunning, 1798, by W. Lancashire of Bath.
Fragments of early C16 glass in the tracery of the east window of the aisle, 2 with Thomas Key's rebus.
External monuments: stone tablet on east wall of aisle, to Jeremiah Caswell, 1788, and other members of the family