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Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity

Haddenham

Cambridgeshire

Late C13, C14 and major restoration of 1876 by R R Rowe.

Architectural Features

C14 in origin but rebuilt 1876 by R R Rowe in memory of 4th.

Stone ashlar, incorporating some medieval work.

West window C14, reset with three trefoil lights in two centred arch with reticulated tracery, surround enriched with an inner order of ballflower and an outer order of dogtooth ornament.

Nave with coursed limestone clerestory and blocked parapet, C14, with main cornice having large beast and grotesque gargoyles (as at Over Church, Cambs qv).

Five windows, three restored and two C14 in part.

Blocked limestone parapet has three grotesque gargoyles.

South porch C14 of coursed limestone with two stage angle buttressing.

Gabled roof has blocked parapet and end parapet with corner pinnacles and main cornice with gargoyles carried round from the south aisle.

Chancel has two C13 lancets, restored

a C14 window with reticulated tracery.

Restored C13 lancets in north wall of chancel.

North wall of nave has five C14 style trefoil light windows.

Reset chancel screen, C15, in tower arch with drop tracery to the upper stage and open lower stage.

The roof is C19 crown-post type but it is carried on original carved corbels.

The south aisle also has a C19 pent roof and the medieval corbels.

The chancel arch C14 is two centred of two chamfered orders on clustered engaged columns with splayed bases and moulded capitals.

The C13 lancets in the chancel have original rear arches as does the C14 window with similar shafted rear arch as that in the south transept.

The pulpit is c.1876.

Font, C15.

The sides of the bowl carved with rosettes and demi-angels with blank shields of arms, and the soffit also carved with angels.

Monuments: North aisle: John Towers 1677 white marble wall monument.

Limestone and white marble wall monument.

Brasses: John Godfrey 1454 and his wife

William Noyon, 1405, parts of canopy.