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The Holy Trinity (church Of England)

Weston

Hertfordshire

C12 as a cruciform church with crossing tower, apsidal transept chapels and presumably an apsidal chancel

Architectural Features

C15 S aisle, S porch, clearstory, new windows, and S transept rebuilt as part of S aisle

Consists of a square ended Neo-Norman chancel, tall crenelated crossing tower, north transept, tall nave, S aisle, S porch, and NE vestry

The chancel on the same floor level as the crossing has a steep pitched 3-bays, arched-braced, hammer-beam open timber roof on the pattern of the Inns of Court with early Renaissance style carved pendants and stone corbels

Elaborate patterned tile floor with encaustic tile roundels

2 round-headed windows to each side with mid C19 stained glass, stone bullseye window over round-headed S door in middle bay

Round-headed chamfered N door to vestry opposite with wall monument above to John Fairclough, d.1630, with Latin inscription, in form of a marble aedicule with panelled pilasters and broken pediment with stepped armorial cartouches

Stone E window of 3 lancets with stained glass by Messrs Powell

The central tower (13½ft square) is narrower than the chancel or nave and is carried on 4 unmoulded Norman crossing arches on axe-dressed ashlar piers with chamfered plinths and deep impost bands of unusual form, deeply moulded and divided into upper and lower parts: the abaci of the 2 eastern piers decorated: the NE pier with billet bands: the SE with plain scallops to chancel arch but with alternate plain and beaded crescents to former S transeptal arch

Tall narrow steep-roofed Norman N transept with thick walls, round headed C12 small window with deep internal splays central in N and W walls and wide round-arched recess in E wall formerly the arch into an apse

C15 grotesque stone corbels support wallposts, braces and tie-beams of 3 bays roof

Sub-principals, principals, and moulded longitudinal members intersect in large carved painted floral bosses

Floor of chequered black and red tiles

Small Neo-Norman wall monument between to Hannah Pryor, d.1850 in form of an aedicule

Octagonal oak pulpit with open arcading on an octagonal moulded base moved here in 1840 from the Church of St

C15 2-centred arched head with drip and 2 hollow chamfered orders

Stone plinth to nave and diagonal buttress at W. 3-lights similar C15 W window

Perp S aisle has 6-bays C19 timber roof on tortured grotesque carved stone corbels

C15 E window of 3-lights with tracery, and 3 2-lights windows in S wall, similar to nave windows with cinquefoil lights, segmental pointed heads, and tracery with central mullion, C15 piscina near E end with wide hollow chamfered, 2-centred head and projecting canted moulded base with cinquefoil drain

Font at W end of aisle C15, with octagonal bowl, each face a square sunk panel with quatrefoil and central fleuron

The C15 S doorway has a 2-centred arch with drip and moulded chamfer, ogee-roll-ogee

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