Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. A C12 and C14 Church.

Church of Holy Trinity

WRENN ID
deep-casement-hawthorn
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1969
Type
Church
Address
Church of Holy Trinity, the Green, Hinton-In-The-Hedges
OS grid reference
SP 558 369
Coordinates
52.02809, -1.188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building located in Hinton-in-the-Hedges. It dates from the 12th and 14th centuries and is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ironstone quoins and a tiled roof. The church features a chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel windows are Victorian. The south doorway in the nave is from the 14th century and has a plank door with a 19th-century porch. To the right, there is a 14th-century three-light window, with tracery that is likely from the 19th century, and a 14th-century lancet window to the left. In the north aisle, there is a 14th-century doorway flanked by 14th-century windows of one and two lights, along with a 14th-century east window (with renewed tracery) and a 14th-century lancet window to the west.

The Romanesque tower has three stages, featuring bell openings with two arched lights and a corbel table adorned with heads. The ground stage of the west wall has a deeply splayed round-headed lancet. There are fragments of herringbone masonry in the west walls of the nave, to the north and south of the tower, which may be of Saxon origin.

Inside, the late 12th-century north arcade consists of two bays with a round pier that has a square abacus and a trumpet scalloped capital, along with similar responds. The arches are double chamfered and date from the 14th century. The chancel arch, also from the 14th century, features corbels with grotesque heads. There are stairs leading to the former rood loft in the north aisle, and the Romanesque tower arch is unmoulded.

Notable fittings include an early 13th-century tub font with a frieze of intersecting arches and stiff leaf decoration, a Perpendicular chancel screen with one-light traceried openings and a vine scroll cornice, and a Jacobean pulpit with blind arcading. The stained glass in the chancel includes a fragment depicting the 'Coronation of the Virgin' from the early 15th century. Monuments within the church include those of Sir William Hinton and his wife, 14th-century stone effigies on chest tombs, and wall tablets commemorating Salathiell Crewe, who died in 1686 (attributed to William Stanton), and Reynold Braye, who died in 1582, featuring a brass inscription in an architectural frame with Corinthian columns.

Local climate

Church of Holy Trinity 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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