Holy Trinity, Torbryan
Holy Trinity, Torbryan
Holy Trinity is a Grade I former parish church at Torbryan, near Ipplepen in Devon, vested in the Churches Conservation Trust since 1 July 1987.
- Location
- Torbryan, Devon
- Country
- England
- County
- Devon
- City / town
- Torbryan
- Address
- Torbryan Hill, Torbryan, Devon, TQ12 5UR
- Postcode
- TQ12 5UR
- Built
- c.1450–70; vestry 19th century
- Denomination
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Exeter
- Parish
- Ipplepen with Torbryan
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular Gothic
- Materials
- Roughcast rendered stone with slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SX 819 668
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records an early fifteenth-century parish church with a nineteenth-century vestry, built of roughcast rendered stone under slate roofs. The Churches Conservation Trust and listing describe a single Perpendicular campaign of about 1450–70: nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower and two-storey south porch. The three-stage tapering tower has battlements, pinnacles and a five-sided south stair turret. Aisle and east windows are Perpendicular of four and five lights; the porch has a white-limestone fan vault.
The interior keeps a wagon roof to nave and chancel, five-bay arcades on diamond piers with foliage capitals, medieval pews enclosed by early eighteenth-century box pews, and a carved seven-sided pulpit. The outstanding fitting is a medieval rood screen across nave and aisles with parclose screens and an almost complete set of pre-Reformation painted saints. Two panels stolen in 2013 were recovered by the Metropolitan Police, conserved and reinstalled in 2016. Medieval glass survives in the heads of most windows.