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the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity

Long Sutton

Somerset

Latter half of C15, finished 1493.

Architectural Features

Chancel has plinth, string and eaves courses, corner gargoyles, angled corner and bay buttresses: 5-light mullioned and transomed east window set in hollow pointed arched recess

North aisle has plinth to chapel only, battlemented parapet with string course and gargoyles

Tower of 4 stages: moulded plinth bands, string courses with gargoyles at top, battlemented parapets

on north side stage 1 are 2 niches with canopies, south side plain: stage 2 plain, save for clock face on west side: stage 3 has 2-light C15 windows flanked by canopied niches on all but south side, which has single niche only: top stage could be later - one open

2 blind windows to 3 faces, with diagonal pilasters between, open windows having stone pierced baffles, one on west side dated 1622

a 3-seat sedilia with 4-centre arched heads to recesses, and a C15 piscina

Chancel arch has fine C15 wood screen, coloured on west face, continued across chapels.

Nave has C15 tie beam roof, the east bay coloured, and C15 arcades: fine coloured timber pulpit, with C20 wood figures in the statue niches, dated 1455-58, with fly approach stair.

Under-tower space has lierne vault, and a C15 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels, panelled coving to slim base, C17 font cover: in north aisle a small stoup near entrance to chapel, and in chapel a C17 altar table and some medieval floor tiles: in south aisle a banded chest dated 1653

Memorials include tablet to Elizabeth Banbury, died l716, with Corinthian columns and entablature, side and bottom swags

also a number of C16

C17 Keinton stone slabs in floor.