The Holy Trinity

lower stage of tower, C15 upper stage of tower, restored 1894-5.

Plain-tile roof with ornamental ridge tiles and ashlar coped gables.

Sheila-na-gig set below eaves.

Round-arched Norman south doorway to left with 3 orders of shafts with carved capitals of volutes and foliage, hollow chamfered abaci, carved decorative beakhead inner arch, looped middle ring and zigzag outer ring and pellet and zigzag decorated hoodmould over.

Tower: 2-stage tower with battered plinth and roll mould, 2 string courses at the upper stage, each incorporating gargoyles, stepped buttresses of former west wall of nave incorporated into tower walls, flat headed lancets on 3 faces at the bottom stage, bell-openings on each face at upper stage, with pointed arched openings, round-headed arched opening to the north and twin square-headed to the east.

Battlemented parapet with carved corner pinnacles.

C14 tomb recess with shallow pointed arch on the south wall.

West wall has round-headed lancet at high level pre-dating the tower, C15 tower doorway with stepped segmental arch.

Simple box pews, mostly of C17 doors fixed to C16 bench ends with ovolo-moulded caps, one has a small flat reading desk attached dated 1707.

Pair of Jacobean seats with carved canopies against south wall and armorial bearings of 8 quarters over.

Richly ornamented Norman chalice font said to be of the C12 Herefordshire school of carving.

Here is the detailed font of the twelfth century in the west end of the nave, said to be an example of the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture.

© Fabian Musto

Simple C17 to C18 communion rails with turned balusters.