Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a medieval parish church located in Trimingham. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features tile and slate roofs. The building includes a squat west tower, a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a vestry. The west tower has diagonal buttresses and a Y-tracery west window with an ogee-headed cusped light above it. There are Y-tracery bell-openings on the north and south sides, and a pantiled lean-to on the south face.

The nave has two bays and is buttressed, with a restored Y-tracery window and a three-light square-headed window under a hood mould on the south side. The north side features a doorway with continuous moulding, where the chamfered jambs merge into an arch with rolls and fillets, along with a hood mould and a cusped ogee-headed niche above. There are also two 19th-century Y-tracery windows.

The chancel consists of two bays and has two square-headed windows with two cusped lights on the south side, and a 19th-century vestry to the north. The east window is a three-light design, with the mullions rising to the apex of the arch, and the tracery includes horizontal members that are cusped, forming complete and partial quatrefoils.

The porch is located at the first bay of the nave and has diagonal buttresses, with single cusped lights on the east and west sides. The archway features shafts with polygonal abaci and bases, and a hollow chamfered arch with continuous moulding. Above the archway is a cusped niche with a hood mould. The nave doorway has continuous chamfer merging into rolls and fillets, along with a hood mould.

Inside, the church has massive tower buttresses and 19th-century roofs. There is a cusped piscina in the south nave wall and re-used poppy-head bench ends. A painted screen from around 1500 features brattishing on the rail and saints depicted on the panels. The tower arch is from the 19th century, while the chancel arch has been restored with polygonal shafts and a chamfered arch. The east window has a sill band, and there is a 19th-century archway leading to the vestry in the north chancel wall. Additionally, there is a double piscina with lancets and a shaft between, as well as a drop-sill sedilia. The royal arms are displayed above the south door, and the font, dating from the 14th century, has attached shafts supporting a bowl with tracery and mouchettes on the panels.