Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1049787
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1049787
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Trimingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 27937 38756
Details
TG 23 NE TRIMINGHAM CHURCH STREET
4/67 Church of 4:10:60 St.John the Baptist II*
11*
Parish church. Medieval. Flint with stone dressings. Tile and slate roofs. West tower, nave, south porch, chancel, vestry. Rather squat west tower with diagonal buttresses; Y-tracery west window with ogee-headed cusped light over; to north and south Y-tracery bell-openings; pantiled lean-to to south face. 2 bay buttressed nave with diagonal buttresses; to the south one restored Y-tracery window and one 3-light square headed window under hood mould; to the north a doorway with continuous moulding, the chamfered jambs merging into an arch with rolls with fillets, hollows between; hood mould; cusped ogee-headed niche over; 2 C19 Y-tracery windows. Chancel of 2 bays with 2 square-headed windows of 2 cusped lights to the south; C19 vestry to the north. East window of 3 lights, the mullions rising to the apex of the arch; horizontal members in the tracery, cusped and forming complete and partial quatrefoils. Porch to first nave bay with diagonal buttresses; single cusped lights to east and west; archway with shafts having polygonal abaci and bases, hollow chamfered arch with hollow to inner and outer orders of continuous moulding with fillets and rolls; cusped niche over with hood mould. Nave doorway with continuous chamfer merging into rolls and fillets with hollows between; hood mould. Interior. Massive tower buttresses. C19 roofs. Cusped piscina in south nave wall. Re-used poppy-head bench ends. Painted screen of c1500 with brattishing to rail and saints to panels. C19 tower arch. Restored chancel arch with polygonal shafts and chamfered arch. Sill band to east window. C19 archway to vestry in north chancel wall. Double piscina with lancets and shaft between; drop-sill sedilia. Royal arms over south door. C14 font with attached shafts supporting bowl with tracey to the panels with mouchettes.
Listing NGR: TG2793738756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224729
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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