Church of St Martin is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A C14 Church.
Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- fallow-cobble-honey
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Martin, the Street, Hindringham
- OS grid reference
- TF 984 364
- Coordinates
- 52.88855, 0.9479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin is a parish church dating from the 14th century, with some later Perpendicular architectural details. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has slated roofs. The church features a west tower, a nave with north and south aisles and a clerestory, a south porch, and a chancel with a north chapel.
The west tower includes a three-light Decorated west window and four two-light openings for the bell chamber, along with a stair tower on the south side. The clerestory has five two-light windows, while the south aisle contains four three-light Decorated windows. The south porch is also decorated and has a single light window in the gable. The chancel features two straight-headed Decorated windows of two lights and a five-light east window with reticulated tracery. The north aisle has a blocked 15th-century north door and three-light Decorated windows, with the two-bay north chancel chapel continuing from the aisle, featuring two Decorated three-light windows and a three-light east window.
Inside, there are five-bay north and south arcades supported by octagonal piers with double hollow chamfered arches. The tower arch is Perpendicular in style. The north chancel chapel has an arch that dies into the wall leading to the north aisle and a two-bay arcade leading to the chancel. The chancel arch is also Perpendicular, with a rood stairs arch to the north and a rectangular squint to the south. The sedilia is mostly 19th-century recut and has a half-filled piscina. The nave roof, which dates from the 15th century, is arched braced and has been much renewed, while the chancel roof is a heavily wind-braced structure from the High Victorian period. There are 15th-century glass fragments in the south aisle's east window, and the chancel's east window was created by Hughes around 1860. The octagonal font from the 15th century features four evangelist beasts and four shields depicting a defaced crucifixion, Passion instruments, the Trinity symbol, and the Royal Arms.
Local climate
Church of St Martin receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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