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
- forbidden-pinnacle-snow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
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