In the 1880's the parishioners decided that their church was too decayed and too small and secured a facility to demolish most of the old church and to build a new and larger one half a mile away. The foundation stone was laid in 1887 and the new church consecrated in 1890.

All that remains of the old church is the chancel and the two stage tower and part of the north-west corner of the nave wall. For some time the chancel was used as a mortuary chapel as the churchyard remained in use for burials. However, in 197, the old chancel, which has been out of regular use for so long and which was in
need of extensive repair, was declared formally redundant and in the following year it passed into the care of the Redundant Churches Fund for preservation.

A substantial programme of repairs was carried out on behalf of the Fund by E Bailey and Sons (Beaminster) Ltd under the direction of Mr Kenneth Wiltshire, architect, and in 1975 the Fund was awarded a Certificate of
Commendation for the conservation work to the building, under the scheme of Awards which was administered in connection with European Architectural Heritage Year.

The chancel was probably built in the 14th century and the arch connecting it to the Tower is of this date. The principal feature of interest is the early 18th century sanctuary, with oaken altar-rails, dado and reredos all designed as a single unit. The reredos, with pediment and urn, incorporates the Creed, Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, all the lettering of which was carefully restored in 1974.The floor is paved with square slabs of grey slate and white marble. At the west end of the Chancel is a blocked door, which formally gave access through the thickened north wall to the rood-screen which would have spanned the arch between the Chancel and the now-vanished Nave.

The Font, with its circular bowl and splayed underside, probably dates from the first founding of a chapel on this site, and is 13th century or earlier. The Tower was built in the 15th century and is of two stages, with embattled parapet and gargoyles.

The Roof of the Chancel consists of stone tiles on heavy oak rafters. The churchyard has some pleasing chest-tombs of the 18th and 19th centuries and some characteristic head-stones incorporating the weeping-willow motif, popular throughout the 19th century. One such stands near the gate to the churchyard and its inscription reads:-

Thomas Roots Jarvis

Drowned by the stranding of the Ships Dessert Flower of
Liverpool on the Long Bank off
Wexford on the 4th March 1864

He sunk no human power his life could save
No hand could snatch him from his watery grave
A grave indeed he little thought to find
When England and his friends he left behind.

From the eastern boundary of the churchyard there is a fine view stretching across unspoilt country towards Shipton Gorge and, westwards, to the hills that encircle Bridport.

The new Church of Holy Trinity stands at the western edge of the old village, with its attractive high pavement. It was designed by E S Prior with W H Lethaby, a founder of the Art Workers' Guild and the latter contributed the altar-frontal in gesso (usually concealed by an altar-cloth). Prior was an original, even eccentric architect and his concern for texture is here well shewn in his use of local "forest marble" and blue stone. The most notable feature is the construction of the nave which is spanned by three great transverse arches. Nearly twenty years later Prior was to use the same feature in the building of St Andrew's, Roker, Co Durham