Memorials and Ornaments

Holy Trinity War Memorial commemorates the men of the parish who died in the 1914-18 War.  It takes the form of a Calvary, Christ crucified with St. Mary and St. John.  A bound book was acquired to commemorate those who gave their lives in both World Wars.

In the narthex is a memorial to J.O. Haldane, Second Lieutenant in the First Battalion, the Rifle Brigade who died in France when trying to save the life of one of his men in 1916.  He was 37.  The Christmas Crib was given in memory of him.

The Christus Rex, the figure of Christ reigning from the cross, hangs from the chancel arch: it was given in memory of the Rev’d Francis Waller Lane, who died in 1939.

The processional cross, given in memory of P.H. and L.M. Glasscock, the high altar cross and candlesticks and the censer, a fine copy of a medieval one, were made by Messrs. F.W. Knight of Wellingborough.  The churchwardens’ staves bear the usual mitre and crown: in former times they were carried in procession by the Vicar’s warden and the people’s warden respectively.

A touching possession of the church is a baptismal shell, given in memory of Cecil George Parsons who died aged 11: his Post Office Savings Account money was used for this gift.

The original font, we believe second hand, did not survive dismantling when the floor was replaced.  Its provenance was not known.  A modern, moveable font is now in use.

The fourteen stations of the cross were given in memory of members of the Ley, Knight, Haldane and Johnson families.

In 1891 the original chamber organ which had been at the back of the church in the early years was replaced by a chancel organ: this was a thoroughly renovated and modernised instrument from a Mr. Harris of Sawbridgeworth.  The present organ, from 1935, incorporates the best parts of the earlier instrument.

Also in the chancel is a triptych of the Burgomaster of Cologne and others adoring the Virgin, on the inside, and an Annunciation on the outside, and, in a niche, the statue of Our Lady and the infant Jesus which replaced an earlier one: it is the work of Messrs. Lawson of St. Albans and was given by a parishioner.  Appropriately for a church with our dedication, we have a copy of Rublev’s icon of the Trinity, known as ‘The Hospitality of Abraham’.