Kendal Parish Church

Kendal Parish Church, also called the Holy Trinity Church because of its willpower to the Holy Trinity, is the Anglican parish church of Kendal, Cumbria, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I indexed building. Visitors to the church are struck with the aid of its size and the lightness of the interior. This lightness is because of the uncommon creation of five aisles, separated via columns and allowing generous window region. The nave is 800 years antique and the opposite aisles had been brought over the centuries in order that, in its heyday, a congregation of 1100 turned into often accommodated.

The Parr Chapel changed into built by way of the Parr family inside the fourteenth century, and the circle of relatives coats of hands are to be visible at the ceiling. The maiden heads also featured on the walls had lengthy been associated with the Parr family badge/fingers. The tool of a maidens head couped underneath the breast vested in ermine and gold; her hair of the last, or; and her head encircled with a wreath of pink and white roses changed into taken from the Ros of Kendal circle of relatives. The huge tomb in this chapel is that of William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal, grandfather of Catherine Parr, the remaining queen consort of King Henry VIII.