NHER 4247 (Monument record) - Site of Holy Trinity Church

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Summary

A Victorian red brick church, built in 1865 in the Early English style with lancet windows and plate tracery. This building had become dangerously derelict and was demolished sometime between 2009 and 2011.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF50SE
Civil Parish NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1865, see (S1).
E. Rose (NAU)

(S2), 1996, in file.

For full details of building and former fittings see (S3) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 August 2000.

(S3) notes that the church was built as a Chapel of Ease to the parish church of St Peter in Upwell in 1865. The church is built of red brick with limestone dressings and a wooden roof. A very plain building, it was built in the Early English style with lancet windows. The church has now been declared unsafe.
See (S3) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 21 July 2006

September 2009.
Church set to be demolished due to subsistance.
See (S4) for further details.
H. White, (NLA), 5 October 2009.

Before 2011. Demolition.
This building was demolished sometime between September 2009 and 3 May 2011.
Google Earth imagery dated 3 May 2011 captures the area following demolition.
New dwellings were constructed in this area by 18 July 2016.
H. Hamilton (HES), 21 April 2023.

  • --- Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1904. Hundred of Clackclose. The Churches of Norfolk. Vol XIII. pp 168-172.
  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 564.
  • --- Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 2000. New Nordelph church could rise from the rubble - Demolition for crumbling church?. 21 July.
  • --- Photograph: Waite, R.C.F.. 1996. Photographs of the south porch, Nordelph Holy Trinity.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-West and South Norfolk. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 270.
  • <S2> Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
  • <S3> Unpublished Document: Elders, J.. 2000. Pastoral Measure Report: Nordelph Holy Trinity. 28 July.
  • <S4> Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2009. Elegy for a country church in jeopardy. 30 September.

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Record last edited

Apr 21 2023 11:42AM

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