Chapel of the Holy Trinity Bentley Traditional Cache
Chapel of the Holy Trinity Bentley
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The hamlet and chapelry of Bentley, which is separated from Shustoke by the parish of Over Whitacre, forms a narrow strip 3½ miles from north-east to south-west by about a mile broad.
It stands high, being mostly above the 500 ft. contour line and reaching 580 ft. in the north, but dropping steeply to 360 ft. at the north-east angle. The soil is a stiff clay and the land is heavily wooded, Monks Park and Bentley Park Woods, containing 600 acres, and Hoar Park on its southern boundary being the largest blocks of woodland.
The modern church of St. John, erected in 1837, is a red brick building consisting of chancel, nave, and tower. It stands in the north of the parish on the road from Coleshill to Atherstone, and north-west of it is the rectangular moat which is said to mark the site of Bentley Manor House. One mile due south of this is the ruined chapel of the Holy Trinity, which was already 'decayed' in 1589, and was but a 'carcasse' when Dugdale wrote (c. 1640).
Only the east wall and a little of the north and south walls are standing, the remainder being entirely cleared away and grassed over. It was 15½ ft. wide inside. The wall is of rubble faced outside with ashlar in orange, yellow, and red sandstone, with a chamfered plinth on footings, and low diagonal buttresses. The gable-head has the original copings and a gable-faced apex-stone. The narrow east window was of two cinquefoiled lights and tracery in a square head, probably of the 14th century; the mullion is missing. In the stump of the south wall is a small piscina with an ogee-head to the niche and a round basin, and south of the window is a plain image-bracket.
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