Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1947. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
sacred-rafter-sorrel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Great Yarmouth
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1947
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Holy Trinity is a parish church with origins in the 13th century, altered in the 15th century, and extensively restored in 1894. The roofs were retiled in 1976. It is constructed primarily of flint with ashlar dressings from Lincolnshire. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a south aisle, and a chancel.

The tower is three-stage externally, featuring diagonal stepped buttresses to the west. A two-light window with reticulation is set into the west face. The ringing chamber has lights to the west, blocked to the north and subsequently enlarged and glazed to the south, all with a square hood. A string course supports two-light restored transomed belfry windows, topped by a crenellated parapet. The west end of the south aisle has a single encircled quatrefoil and a diagonal buttress. A gabled south porch, supported by diagonal buttresses, has a wave moulded arch and two-light cusped side lights beneath a leaded roof. The south aisle also has three two-light windows with Y tracery, and a three-light east window dating to 1915. A diagonal buttress stands to the east. The chancel south wall features two two-light windows with cusped Y tracery. A gabled 20th-century vestry adjoins the chancel. The chancel east wall has diagonal buttresses and a four-light Perpendicular window. A single two-light cusped chancel window is located on the north side. The nave north wall features two three-light Perpendicular windows and a single arched 13th-century lancet; a north door is blocked.

Inside, a four-bay south arcade is supported by octagonal piers with double hollow chamfered arches, all dating to 1894. A roll-moulded Y tracery west window of two lights is visible within the tower. An arch over the south doorway dates to 1908. The nave roof is notable for a contract of 1330, initially replaced in 1785, featuring principals with two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins and short straight windbraces at the base. A similar lean-to aisle roof is boarded over a 1915 chapel. The chapel east window has jambs with columns and ogeed statuary niches. A large octagonal 15th-century font has a stem with eight attached columns and a bowl with alternating modified route-tournants and shields bearing figures of angels within cusped quatrefoils; a crenellated rim completes the design. A 19th-century chancel roof is boarded and arch braced. Ogeed and cusped sedilia and a piscina are arranged under four arches. A wall monument to William Crowe (1668) depicts a bust flanked by black marble Corinthian columns and an achievement, above a scrolled broken pediment and inscription. An architectural monument to Robert Crowe (1727) is also present, with a bowed inscription panel, segmental pediment, and gadrooned base. Two commandment panels, dating to 1688 and painted in oil on canvas, depict Moses and Aaron on the west wall.

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