Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. A Early C14 Church.
Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1958
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Holy Trinity, the Street, Scoulton
- OS grid reference
- TF 973 009
- Coordinates
- 52.57066, 0.90998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Holy Trinity is a parish church dating from the early 14th century. It is constructed of rubblestone and flint, featuring ashlar quoins. The nave is thatched, while the aisles are covered with slate and the chancel has a pantiled roof. The church has a west tower with four stages, which includes clasping buttresses on the east side and diagonal buttresses on the west, adorned with flushwork. The west window is a three-light design with two cusped mouchettes supporting an encircled quatrefoil. There are slit windows in the ringing chamber, and the octagonal belfry is set on broaches, with its windows blocked by timber louvres. A staircase is located in the southeast buttress.
The south porch, dating from the 15th century, features diagonal buttresses decorated with flushwork and shields, as well as a gabled parapet above a niche. The porch has a moulded arch with a hood mould supported by stops. Each aisle contains two-light Y windows with hood moulds, some resting on beak stops and moulded jambs. The chancel has three south windows with two-light Y tracery, including a low side window to the west, and an arched priest's door. The east buttresses are decorated with chequered flushwork and support an elaborate five-light Perpendicular east window, which is set under a four-centred arch with intersecting panel tracery. A low parapet rests on kneelers, topped with a Celtic cross. There is one two-light Y window on the north side of the chancel, and a vestry made of brick and rendered clay lump.
Inside, the church features three bay double hollow chamfered arcades supported by octagonal piers, with moulded bases and capitals, and hood moulds on head stops. The tower arch is wave moulded, and deep sconsion arches lead to the aisle windows, which have triangular rere arches. The roofs are plastered and coved throughout. The chancel has scrolled arched braces, and there is a plain octagonal font. A 17th-century panelled pulpit with a tester and some carving is present, along with an arched recess in the north chancel wall, which has engaged side columns and moulded capitals, and five cresset holes in its base. The chancel and south aisle also feature a trefoiled piscina. The church has good 15th-century doors leading to the south porch and the tower stairs.
Local climate
Church of Holy Trinity sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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