The Holy Trinity

Tower is very difficult to date and considered by some to be C12 although a C14 date is also possible.

Extensive internal C17 fittings.

EXTERIOR: N and S sides have buttresses, C17 or early C19 in origin, with deep set-offs, angle buttresses to the chancel and two 2-light windows, each light round-headed .

Each side has a single roof dormer with a hipped roof, tile-hung cheeks and pair of 2-light timber windows with segmental arched heads under a timber hoodmould.

The tower also has large W buttresses at right angles to the W face, these are dated 1636 by Pevsner.

Victorian Perpendicular style W doorway with carved spandrels, 3-light c.

INTERIOR: The interior has a canted boarded roof with late C17 painted decoration, now faded and obscured by damage from a 1930s fire in the tower.

At the E end the centrepiece represents the Angel of the Apocalypse sounding the last trump in a painted egg and dart medallion with cherubim painted in smaller medallions.

1610 font with an octagonal bowl on a thick and elaborately moulded baluster-like stem.

Jacobean domed font cover.

C19 timber drum pulpit with panelled sides pierced with stylised flower motifs.

2 brass candelabra presented in 1718 and 1724.

The late C17 and early C18 fittings correspond to a period of prosperity and much rebuilding in Queenborough, which preserves small but smart houses of this period in the High Street.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The Church of the Holy Trinity is of immense interest as a parish church of C14 origins with much C17 work and with an outstanding survival of a late C17 painted ceiling and early C17 font with unusual relief carvings.

It stands in a churchyard with a wealth of good monuments.