Architectural Features
2 south and one east aisle windows : 3-light C15 panel tracery under segmental arch with hood on label stops
Fragments of C14 roof in south aisle.
Wall painting above chancel arch of c.1450 depicting Holy Trinity, Virgin and St. Gabriel flanking cross.
Subsidiary angels with scrolls on red foliate diaper background.
2 north aisle paintings of c.1350.
Early C14 octagonal font with punched tracery patterns.
Holy Trinity church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024966 is situated in the grounds of Great Hockham Hall, hidden behind tall trees. The church does not have a tower and is hence not easily spotted. The building dates mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries. It houses three medieval wallpaintings: the Holy Trinity painted above the chancel arch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024972 has been dated to the 1450s; the Adoration of the Magi > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024989 and another, unidentified painting > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2024993 on the north wall are believed to be a century earlier. The church also has a remarkable set of 16th century benches with some rather eccentric, carved poppy heads > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025014 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025020 - one of these a mermaid > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2025010 holding a comb and a mirror. The baptismal font dates from the 14th century.