Architectural Features
String course with corner gargoyles.
Nave: central projecting porchway has recessed, round-arched doorway with moulded impost band and archivolt with cherub-carved keystone.
architraved panels above formerly with carvings, fragment remaining in easternmost panel.
Flanking windows have 2 round-headed lights within architraves, panels over with carved bird and beast.
Wall monument on north wall of chancel to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford : kneeling figure within garlanded frame, flanking columns with broken segmental pediment with cartouche and putti.
Wall monument on north wall of chapel to William, 2nd Earl of Strafford and wife Henrietta : two kneelers face each other in draped classical niche
beneath, a panel extolling the virtues of Henrietta and signed '1689 Strafforde'.
At time of resurvey many of the important Wentworth monuments and most fitments temporarily removed for conservation.
These include: C15 alabaster effigies of a Gasgoigne knight and wife (north chapel)
In chancel north wall a wall monument to Sir William Wentworth and wife Anne parents of the 1st Earl of Strafford.
Numerous lesser items remain including brass to Michael D'Arcy by south door.
Brass to Thomas Wentworth in north chapel floor.
Removed fittings include C17 panelling, some family box pews and balustraded altar rail.
Descriptions of monuments in: J. A. Harrison, A Brief Guide to the Two Churches of the Holy Trinity Wentworth, 1981.
P. E. Routh, Medieval Effigial Alabaster Tombs in Yorkshire, 1976, pp131-3