Architectural Features
3 stage tower with heavy diagonal west buttresses of brick of 1589.
Renewed C12 lancets to first and second stage on north and south, one 2-light Decorated window to west C19.
Top stage 1501-3 with 2-light Perpendicular belfry windows and crenellated parapet.
To west of steeply pitched gabled north porch one renewed C12 lancet.
Arched west door below inscription plaque bearing Hare arms and date 1624.
Semi- circular flat Norman tower arch with responds.
C20 font and cover.
Excellent carved and painted Royal Arms over south door to Charles II.
2 bench ends in chancel are C15 : on north a hare grips arms of Hare family
C13 stepped sedilia in chancel with arches on colonnettes, continuous with double piscina and arched light into vestry, in character all now 1850.
Vestry partitioned from organ by fragment of late C17 panelling with strapwork top rail and palmettes to door hung on H hinges.
Monuments(in clockwise direction).
Wall monument in white marble.
Neo-classical figure of deceased leaning on urn against grey ground.
Coloured wax effigy half figure in contemporary dress within cupboard which closes completely.
Sir Thomas Hare 1693.
A tribute to one of the many Hares to bear that name, from his grieving widow Dame Elizabeth, in the Hare Chapel of Holy Trinity Church at Stow Bardolph. "This Epitaph belongs to the Monument erected by Dame Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Hare, Bart. "The glorious sun which sets at night, Appears next morning clear and bright, The gawdy deckings of the earth, Do ev'ry spring receive new birth, But life when fled, has no return, In vain we sigh, in vain we mourn, Yet does the turtle justly grieve her fate, When she is left behind without her mate, Not less does she, who rais'd this tomb, And wishes here to have a room, With that dear He, who underneath doth lye, Who was the treasure of her heart, the pleasure of her eye."
Sarcophagus with gadrooned cornice supports reclining white marble effigy of deceased dressed in Roman armour.
Monument to Susannah Hare 1741 by Peter Scheemakers in white and grey marble.
Monuments within Hare chapel of National importance.