Church of St Swithin is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Swithin
- WRENN ID
- still-loggia-grove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Swithin, Church Road, Bintree
- OS grid reference
- TG 017 234
- Coordinates
- 52.77094, 0.98879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Swithin is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with plain tile and slate roofs. The church features a west tower, a nave with an aisle, a south transept and porch, and a chancel built in 1761, as indicated by a datestone. The 14th-century west tower is supported by a pair of diagonal buttresses and has a chequered flushwork plinth. It includes a two-light cusped Y-traceried west window and two-light bell-openings with pairs of short super mullions flanking cusped soufflets. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and crocketted corner pinnacles.
The north side of the nave has two two-light windows and one three-light window in the late Perpendicular style, all with flat heads. The south aisle features two similar three-light windows and one two-light cusped Y-traceried west window. The south transept contains a restored three-light Decorated window with three-petal soufflets at the gable end, a single lancet window to the west, and two two-light Y-traceried windows to the east. The 18th-century chancel has east and south windows in the Decorated style.
Inside, there is a four-bay 14th-century south arcade with octagonal piers, bell capitals, and arches of two plain chamfered orders. The tower arch features filletted semicircular responds and a plain chamfered arch, while the chancel arch from the 18th century is in the classical style. The church also has a 14th-century octagonal font with elaborate blind tracery patterns in each panel and a rare 12th-century pillar piscina located in the chancel.
Local climate
Church of St Swithin receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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