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the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity

West Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

C19 chancel in C13 style has 3 grouped lancets to east, and a single lancet to north and south, all with hood moulds and carved stops

Architectural Features

The parapets have some medieval gargoyles at the angles

Massive 3-stage tower of 1849, in a mixed romanesque and C14 style, has tall traceried openings to the bell chamber

6-canted chancel roof has moulded ribs with carved foliage bosses and a carved frieze

Trefoil-headed piscina and sedilia may be C13

Oak chancel fittings have traceried panels and carved poppy heads

C19 encaustic-tile floor

C19 nave arcade in C13 style has carved head stops

Octagonal C19 font has carved roundels of foliage

Stained glass in chancel by Clutterbruck (1845)

C17 full-length effigy in legal robes retains much colouring and may be Edmund Meese (died 1617) whose memorial tablet is set in the west wall