The Cross - II - Holy Trinity Church - Caister on Sea, Norfolk, Great Britain.
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Station of the Cross - II - The Cross. A relief located in the aisle along with other civic memorials, in the Church of Holy Trinity, A medieval Grade II listed building, located in Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, Great Britain.
Waymark Code: WMGPE8
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/27/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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Most of the Stations of the cross reliefs are sponsord by deceased church members. The last of whom died in 1981 The Resurrection is sponsored by the Mothers Union.

The information on the Holy Trinity Church, below is from the British listed buildings web site:

"Parish church. C13 origins, altered C15. Much restored 1894, roofs tiled 1976.
Flint with ashlar dressings. West tower, nave, south aisle and chancel.
3 stage tower, externally only 2 stages apparent. Diagonal stepped buttresses
to west. 2-light early C14 west window with reticulation unit. Cusped ringing
chamber lights to west, blocked to north and enlarged and glazed to south.
South light under square hood. String course below 2-light restored transomed
belfry windows. Crenellated parapet above string course. South aisle west
end has a single C13 encircled quatrefoil. Diagonal buttress. Gabled south
porch supported on diagonal buttresses and entered through wave moulded arch.
2-light cusped side lights. Leaded roof. 3 2-light Y tracery south aisle
windows and 3-light east window of 1915. Diagonal east buttress. 2 2-light
south chancel cusped Y tracery windows. Against chancel a gabled C20 vestry.
Diagonal east chancel buttresses and a 4-light Perpendicular east window.
One 2-light cusped chancel north window. 2 3-light Perpendicular north nave
windows and one arched C13 lancet. Blocked north door. Interior. 4 bay south
arcade on octagonal piers and with double hollow chamfered arches, all of 1894.
Roll moulded Y west window of 2 lights looks into tower. 1908 arch over south
doorway. Nave roof famous for contract of 1330 (see.John Harvey, Medieval
Craftsmen, 1975, p.200) but replaced 1785: principals, 2 tiers taper-tenoned
butt purlins and short straight windbraces.at base. Similar lean-to aisle
roof, boarded to east over chapel of 1915. Jambs of chapel east window with
columns and ogeed statuary niches. Large octagonal C15 font. Stem with 8
attached columns with capitals and bases. Bowl panels alternate between
modified route-tournants and shields within cusped quatrefoils, the shields
bearing figures of angels. Crenellated rim. C19 chancel roof is boarded and
arch braced. Ogeed and cusped sedilia and piscina under 4 arches. Wall
monument to William Crowe 1668 : bust stands between 2 black marble Corinthian
columns rising to entablature and scrolled broken pediment. Between scrolls
an achievement. Apron below bears inscription. 2 white marble skulls flank
bust. To east an architectural monument to Robert Crowe 1727. Black marble.
Bowed inscription panel between Corinthian pilasters. Above is a segmental
pediment and below is a gadrooned base. 2 commandment panels on nave west
wall. 1688. Oil on canvas. Depict Moses and Aaron." Text Source:
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Church of Holy Trinity
Ormesby Road
Caister on Sea, Norfolk Great Britain
NR31 5JN
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