NHER 6805 (Building record) - St John the Baptist's Church, Trimingham

Tower with Y-tracery windows, cusped light at top and no parapet. Its east buttresses are inside nave. Nave has Y-tracery windows, plus one late Perpendicular style (mid 14th century to mid 15th century). Piscina inside north door and at east end south wall (cusped). Rood stair door and base. No north porch but cusped niche over door. South porch Decorated style (late 13th century to mid 14th century) with niche, now disused. Chancel has very late Perpendicular (mid 14th century to mid 15th century) windows (east very unusual) and chancel arch. Single sedilia and double piscina (but only one drain) under crude pointed heads. Painted screen around 1500. Octagonal shafted font. Large aumbry chancel north wall (original?) and 19th century organ chamber. Royal arms George III. Chalice Norwich 1567.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 March 1978.

Informant notes bellframe of three compartments and arched bracing, containing 'one old bell'. [1]
Sketch in file.

Listed Grade II*.
E. Rose (NAU), 23 September 1988

Noted in passing 26 September 1999 that the tower was being refaced - the belfry stage is now flush-rendered pebble flint and erratics, the lower stages are large beach pebbles. The impression given is that the original top is missing. In correction to the above description there are only Y-tracery bellopenings to north and south; to the west is a cusped lancet at a lower level. A large hole has been made through the west wall at the base of the belfry - was there some sort of opening here before? It is adjacent to the north-west buttress.
NCC (Norfolk County Council) Guide to the Paston Way states the rood screen disappeared around 1850 and was discovered in a barn in 1865.
E. Rose (NLA), 28 September 1999.