Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Holy Trinity Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Holy Trinity Church, the Street, Middleton
OS grid reference
TM 430 677
Coordinates
52.25448, 1.55896
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holy Trinity Church is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period and was restored in the mid-19th century. It suffered considerable damage from a fire in 1955. The church features a nave and chancel under one roof, a west tower, and a south porch. The structure is built of random flint rubble, with the nave and chancel mostly re-faced in the mid-20th century, and has a plain tiled roof.

The 15th-century square tower has four stages and a crenellated parapet, with diagonal buttresses on the west face only. It includes flushwork on the buttresses and parapet, a two-light west window with Y tracery, likely from the 19th century, and two-light bell chamber openings with simple wooden tracery. The tower is topped with a recessed needle spire clad in lead.

The nave contains two three-light 15th-century windows, while other windows are 19th-century restorations or renewals in the style of the 15th century. A notable feature is the good 12th-century south doorway, which has two orders of colonnettes, scalloped capitals, and an arch with roll and chevron moulding, along with a stoup on the right side. The mid-18th-century porch has a crenellated parapet.

The chancel boasts a fine four-light east window from around 1300, featuring re-used 12th-century billets around the arch head. Other windows and the Priest's doorway are 19th-century restorations or renewals. The northwest chancel window has a splay with 12th-century engaged shafting and re-used chevron moulding, while the southwest chancel window retains smaller remains of 12th-century engaged shafting.

Inside, there is a 15th-century carved octagonal font with an inscription at the base, and the north wall of the nave displays part of a 15th-century fresco of St. Christopher and the Royal Arms of George III in iron. Two nave window splays include niches, one of which is trefoil-headed, and there is an altered 12th-century angle piscina in the south chancel. The north chancel features a wall monument to Rev. Thomas Meadows, who died in 1742, flanked by two smaller monuments to his wives. A portrait brass for Anthony Pettow, who died in 1610, has been re-mounted at the west end of the nave. The church is graded II* for its surviving medieval work.

Local climate

Holy Trinity Church 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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