Architectural Features
Built 1843-45, replacing the medieval church which stood on the same site.
Stained glass by John Hardman & Co, Heaton Butler and Bayne, and CE Kempe.
A number of monuments and other features from the old church are incorporated into the building.
east window enlarged 1902 and given later C14-style flowing tracery with mouchettes.
Most door and window openings have hood-moulds with carved stops.
Spandrels decorated with carvings of heads, foliage clusters or portrait busts.
North transept (the Campion Chapel) was made into a memorial chapel in 1924 to commemorate World War I dead.
Stone pulpit to south of chancel arch with blind tracery.
Stained glass is mainly of the 1860s by John Hardman & Co of Birmingham, pioneers of the Victorian stained glass revival, including the Crucifixion (north transept)
South chapel has three-light window inset with 15 medallions of German or Flemish provenance, probably late C16, collected by Bishop Butler of Durham in the C18.
font (west end of south aisle), probably c1200.
TQ2716 : Holy Trinity, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex - Font
Painted and gilded oak font cover also by Scott.
C13 sedilia (south wall of south transept)
effigy of a knight of c1340, possibly Simon de Pierpoint, resting on an altar-tomb enclosed by early C16 wrought-iron railings (west end of north aisle).
The churchyard contains a pleasing ensemble of C18 and early C19 monuments.
HISTORY: A church is recorded at Hurstpierpoint in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The church that pre-existed Holy Trinity, dedicated to St Lawrence, comprised a square Norman west tower with a shingle spire, nave and south aisle, chancel and south chapel (the Danny Chapel).
Records suggest that this building had been heavily remodelled in the early C15
the window tracery and other medieval features had gone by the early C19 by which time galleries and box pews had been installed.
A number of monuments and other features from the old church were retained
It was the only church Barry designed with the disciplined archaeological approach to medieval form advocated by Pugin, almost certainly reflecting the latter's influence.
It has a wealth of good C19 and early C20 stained glass, all by leading manufacturers of the time, principally John Hardman & Co of Birmingham who produced much of the glass for the Palace of Westminster and, with Pugin, pioneered the revival of English stained-glass making. * Also of special interest for the numerous medieval and later features preserved from the old church, and imported C16 Continental stained glass.