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the Holy Trinity

Architectural Features

surviving work of C12 and all subseqent periods.

chancel roof has plain clay tiles with bands of fish-scale, nave has stone slates, both between stepped coped gables.

Chancel C12

late C13, restored 1862: chamfered plinth, pairs corner and bay buttresses, all with offset, with headstop kneeler stones to gable coping: east window 3-light Geometric tracery under arched label with headstops, and below and to sides, set into wall, 3 C18 memorial plaques in keystoned architraved surrounds to members of Barton family

extending from east buttresses a railed area with C18 wrot iron railings having spear-point tips and 3 cast-iron finials: on north side a 2-light C13 window, just post-plate tracery, under arched label with headstops, and wall lean to vestry with dated quoinstone of 1847, with east window to match north chancel window: on south side two similar windows, with indications of blocked doorway under westernmost

Nave largely rebuilt 1805: buttresses with with offsets each end: on south side two 3-light windows, to left of portico a plain triple lancet, to right 3 ogee-arched lights with carved spandrils, both without labels

Tower low and squat, C12 origins, restored 1904

above it a 3-light C15 traceried window of irregular geometry set in hollow-chamfered recess: above this a pair of slim lancet windows without label, matched by similar pairs on north and south sides, the latter off-centre, and on east side simple lancet to either side of pitched roof: square plan south east corner stair turret with lean-to stone roof with slit windows on east side.

Chancel C13 in character: 19 roof and arch into organ chamber vestry: windows have fully-moulded rere-arches with attached bell cap shafts and arched labels on bell-capital corbels

partly restored C13 piscina in south-east corner.

Chancel arch of early C12, with quintuple chevron mould under shaved-off label, plain chamfered impost blocks, and on nave side attached shafts one with fluted cap, the other with acanthus type foliage, and to south of arch a large squint: roof has molded timber rib and plaster panel ceiling with decorative bosses, possibly 1805

plain pointed arch with chamfered impost blocks into tower, late C12/early C13.

fine early C17 timber pulpit with matching panelling, under C18 tester, all relocated from other side of chancel arch

font C15, octagonal with quatrefoil panels, moulded waterbowl and panelled shaft.

Memorials include engraved brass in chancel to Jacobi Dupont, Lord of the Manor, died 1590

in nave, on north wall, tablet in architraved surround with semi-circular panel over to Ann Dymock, died 1735, also hatchment board dated 1805.

Fragments of early medieval stained glass in west window.

Photographs of church before 1912 show original site of pulpit, sexton's desk, and west end gallery, also featured in a cartoon of the church choir/band dated 1827.

Tower has 3 bells of 1764, 1420 (Bristol)

1636.

One of few churches in this area not reconstructed in C14 or C15.