Santissima Trinidad Parish

In 1795 the Loay was separated from Loboc to which it belonged as a visita. Other authorities give 1815 as the foundation date. The church complex is built on a plateau facing the sea and near the mouth of the Loboc River. A flight of stairs connects the church complex to the rest of the town located below the hill. The vehicular entrance to the complex is via the road to Loboc.

Heritage Features: The church is cruciform, has two facades: the older is decorated with low relief and the newer was apparently completed in the 20^th century as its upper register is in reinforced concrete. The whole is surmounted by cement statues depicting the virtues. The bell tower is a separate structure built at a short distance from the church. Like many Bohol churches the interior is painted with trompe o'eil and with Biblical scenes. The altars are in the Neoclassical style.

Loay Plaza Complex

Many towns have lost their Spanish colonial plaza. The attrition started during the first half of the 20^th century, when the American colonial government decided to divide the open space between church and civil government, and when it laid out thoroughfares which separated the church from the open space in front of it. Subsequently, plazas were landscaped, decorative elements added to them, and some of the open space given to basketball and tennis courts, band stands, and other amenities. To find them a good sized open space with no pretensions at being over decorated or landscaped, just a simple stretch of grass, is to catch a glimpse of a townscape more than a hundred years ago. Loay still has such a plaza.

Flanking the plaza are two coral stone buildings. A one story building is being used by the public school, while directly opposite it, a two-story building has been cleared after being useds the school's storage space. These building were once the escuela pia, established in the 19^th century to answer the need for education. Both are plainly designed, sedate and classical in temper. The buildings are bereft of ornamentation except for emblem of the Virgin Mary on the two story structure. This building was apparently renovated a later date because a balcony has been added behind the building. The diocese of Tagbilaran is in the process of converting this building into the archdiocesan archives to house papers and church documents from the Spanish period. The documents will come from the 38 parishes that comprise the diocese.

Clarin House

At the foot of the hill where the church is located is the ancestral house of the Clarin family. A bahay na bato built of rubble and molave, the house contains memorabilia of the Clarins, one of the leading political families of Bohol. Permission is needed to enter the house.