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Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity

Swyre

Dorset

C15 west tower and chancel-arch.

Architectural Features

Gabled slate roof with a stone coping North doorway, partly late C14, with moulded jambs and 2-centred head.

Fittings: Font, stone octagonal bowl with quatrefoils-in-circles.

Octagonal stem and base, C15.

Brasses: nave north wall, 1) to James Russell esquire and Alys (Wise) his wife, 1509, with shield- of-arms of Russell impaling Wise.

2) To John Russell and Elizabeth (Frocksmer), his wife, 1505, with shield-of-arms of Russell impaling Frocksmer.

Both brasses reset in 'Cl6-style' stone frames.

Wall Monument, chancel, to James Napier, Gent., brother of Sir Alexander Napier of Marchiston (sic). (Long inscription on descent of the Napier family from Scotland to Dorset.) Monument erected AD 1692.

Pilasters garlanded with carved fruit and flowers.