Holy Trinity, Marcross
Holy Trinity, Marcross
Holy Trinity is a Grade I Church in Wales church in the centre of Marcross, Vale of Glamorgan, in the Diocese of Llandaff.
- Location
- Marcross, Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Glamorgan
- City / town
- Marcross
- Address
- Marcross, Glamorgan, CF61 1ZG
- Postcode
- CF61 1ZG
- Built
- Mid C12 to C14; tower rebuilt above the ridge C17; restored 1892–93
- Architect
- Kempson and Fowler (1892–93 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Llandaff
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman and Gothic; saddleback tower
- Materials
- Rendered local lias limestone rubble; 1893 windows of Bath stone; Welsh slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SS 920 690
- Opening hours
- This simple church is left unlocked. A wheelchair ramp is available behind the main door for supported wheelchair access.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Cadw dates the church from the mid twelfth to the fourteenth century; the saddleback tower is likely to have been rebuilt above the ridge in the seventeenth century. Kempson and Fowler restored the building in 1892–93, re-windowing and re-roofing it. Walls are largely rendered local lias limestone rubble, with Bath-stone windows of 1893 and Welsh slate roofs. The plan is nave with west tower and south porch, and a lower chancel.
The south porch has a round-headed entrance arch of about 1150 with billet moulding on grotesque heads. The twelfth-century chancel arch is semi-circular, with roll moulding breaking into four chevrons in the head. Cadw records a moulded tomb recess of about 1300, a font of about 1200 with roll mouldings, an upper rood door, and a Sutton-stone grave slab of about 1200 reset in the chancel floor in 1893. The church is listed as a largely complete early medieval building that has retained its character. The earliest documentary reference is 1254.