Holy Trinity, Norton Juxta Twycross
Holy Trinity, Norton Juxta Twycross
Holy Trinity is a Grade II* parish church on Orton Lane, Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire, in the Diocese of Leicester and the Appleby group of churches.
- Location
- Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Leicestershire
- City / town
- Norton Juxta Twycross
- Address
- Orton Lane, Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire, CV9 3PU
- Postcode
- CV9 3PU
- Built
- Early C14; heavily restored c.1841
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Leicester
- Parish
- Appleby Magna and Swepstone with Snarestone and Norton-juxta-Twycross
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Decorated Gothic
- Materials
- Ashlar; plain tile roofs with stone coped verges
- Grid reference
- SK 322 070
- Opening hours
- Saturdays and Sundays 10am - 4pm, subject to repairs and services, please contact [email protected] to check accessibility [a small step into church, 2 steps in Chancel]
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records an early fourteenth-century church heavily restored about 1841. The listing describes ashlar with plain tile roofs and stone-coped verges: a three-stage west tower, four-bay nave and three-bay chancel with vestry. The tower has angle buttresses, a crenellated parapet, a pointed west entrance with an old nail-studded door, a Y-traceried west window and a seated figure in a crocketed niche. Nave windows are of two lights with Decorated tracery; the east window is of four lights with flowing tracery.
The interior has a high pointed chancel arch of two chamfered orders without capitals and a similar tower arch, the lower part now blocked. Roofs are an arch-braced hammer-beam over the nave and an arch-braced collar over the chancel. The parish notes Georgian pitch-pine box pews and a contemporary three-tier pulpit. The 1841 works were under the patronage of Earl Howe of Gopsall Hall. Domesday records a priest at Nortone, then held of Lady Godiva.