Description

SCOULTON THE STREET TF 90 SE

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16.7.58 Church of Holy Trinity

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Parish Church. Early C14. Rubblestone and flint with ashlar quoins. Thatched nave, slate aisles, pantiled chancel. West tower 4 stages. Clasping buttresses east, diagonal west with flushwork. 3-light west window with 2 cusped mouchettes supporting encircled quatrefoil. Slit windows to ringing chamber. Octagonal belfry on broaches with windows blocked by timber louvres. Stairs in south- east buttress. C15 south porch with diagonal buttresses decorated with flushwork and shields. Gabled parapet above niche. Moulded arch with hood mould on stops. Both aisles with 2-light Y windows with hood mould, some on beak stops and moulded jambs. 3 chancel south windows of 2-light Y tracery, to west with low side window. Arched priest's door. East buttresses with chequered flushwork and elaborate 5-light Perpendicular east window under 4-centred arch of inter- secting panel tracery type. Low parapet on kneelers with Celtic cross. One 2-light Y window to north chancel. Brick and rendered clay lump vestry. Interior with 3 bay double hollow chamfered arcades on octagonal piers. Moulded bases and capitals and hood mould on head stops. Wave moulded tower arch. Deep sconsion arches to aisle windows with triangular rere arches. Plastered coved roofs throughout. Chancel with scrolled arched braces. Plain octagonal font. C17 panelled pulpit with tester and some carving. Arched recess in north chancel wall with engaged side columns and moulded capitals. 5 cresset holes in base. Trefoiled piscina in chancel and south aisle. Good C15 doors to south porch and tower stairs.

Listing NGR: TF9730100957

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