Building record 0403700000 - Holy Trinity Church, DRAYTON PARSLOW

Dimensions - Width 12m, Length 22m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
Grade II+. Parish church. Fragments of C12 masonry, C14 chancel, C15 nave and W. tower,C16 S. porch. All much restored C19. Coursed lime and ironstone rubble with dressed blocks for tower. Slate roof to nave, tiled chancel and porch, W.tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttresses, plain parapet, 2-light cusped openings with flat hoodmoulds to bell-chamber and 2-light traceried window to west. Nave has plinth, plain ironstone parapet, and 2 bays of 2-light traceried windows, one to south with original hoodmould and carved head stops. Similar hood to N. door. S. door has moulded arch. Porch has C16 roof with curved wind-braces, small slit window to south, and stone benches, chancel has one bay of 2-light windows with ogee tracery. S. wall has small C19 doorway and additional 2-light traceried window. 3-light perpendicular E. window. Interior: Tall triple chamfered tower arch. Nave windows have reveals with original chamfered edges. Double chamfered chancel arch on corbels with carved heads. C19 roofs and sedilia. Fittings: Fine late C15 hexagonal font with wide battlemented basin and heraldic shields to sides, on niches with ogee canopied heads, crockets and finials, and moulded and chamfered base. C15 alabaster panel over altar has relief of the Crucifixion. Fragments of C15 glass, C17 credence table and carved door to aumbry. Other fittings and glass C19 - early C20. RCHM II p 99-100 (B7).
Photos, BCM file.
At NGR (B8).

The earliest reference to the church is in 1232 when it was in the patronage of the Crown (B3).
The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is built of stone, the tower and porch of ashlar, the rest being rubble. The nave roof is slated, the chancel and porch roofs are tiled. A few stones built into the wal of the nave are the only evidence of C12th work. The chancel was rebuilt late in the C14th, the nave early in the C15th, and the West tower was added late in the same century.The South porch was added early in the C16th. The whole church was restored in the C19th (B4).
Church of the Holy Trinity, Grade II* (B6).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.