Welcome to Holy Trinity
Serving the community of Norton Juxta Twycross
Holy Trinity church is open Saturdays and Sundays between 10am & 4pm for visitors or private prayer.
Services:
Services are usually one Sunday per month, with specials at Easter and Christmas.
For service dates/times please check the calendar page of this website.
Regular Sunday congregations are small but occasional informal specials, such as our mid-week evening Celebrating Christmas, are well supported by villagers. Holy Trinity also hosts the Christmas Eve midnight communion service every other year, which is a wonderfully peaceful candlelit service.
Whilst attendance at Sunday services is small, the church and village support each other in different ways. There are coffee mornings which fundraise for the church and allow social outreach within the village community.
Various villagers take turn on the church cleaning and flowers rota.
The church also holds well supported church breakfasts and we have a stall at the annual Village Fete.
In 2024 villagers organised a successful 'A Country Church in Summer' flower weekend.
Village setting:
The small village of Norton Juxta Twycrss sits on the western ridge of Leicestershire, bordering Warwickshire. Although historically housing estate workers from the now demolished Gopsal Hall, it is now a dormitory village.
Norton has a Village Memorial Hall which is used for village and church events. Twycross Zoo also sits within the village boundary. There are no village school, pub, nor shop and very limited public transport. Norton is in a joint civil parish with Twycross and Orton-on-the-Hill and lies within Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council
Church Building:
This Grade 11* listed medieval church includes Georgian pitch-pine box pews, with contemporary 3-tier pulpit system, plus an arch-braced hammer-beam roof over the nave and arch-braced collar roof over the chancel. Major renovations to the church were carried out in 1841, under the patronage of Earl Howe of nearby Gopsal Hall.
This building has been at the heart of the village community since early 14th century and possibly sits on the site of an earlier Saxon church. Nortone village is recorded as having had a priest at the 1086 Domesday survey, when Lady Godiva (of Coventry fame) was the named overlord of the village. As there was a priest, presumably there was also a church.
Repair grants:
Being a medieval church, sitting on a clay hillside, there will always be building issues. The local congregation is responsible for the maintenance of the building, which is a challenge for such a small community, so we are grateful to the various funding bodies who have enabled the work.
In 2022 we completed a large grant-aided project to re-tile one of the roof faces, replace the ceilings and carry out various internal plaster repai
rs. Villagers also gave generously towards repairing the church clock.
Thanks to National Churches Trust & Historic England, we were awarded a grant from the government’s Heritage Stimulus Fund towards the 2022 works. We also thank Benefact Trust, Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Helen Jean Cope Charity, Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council Parish Community Initiative Fund, Jack Patston Charitable Trust, Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, LRCF Mercia Park Community Fund, Paget Charitable Trust, Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust and Twycross Parish Council.
Thanks to their support, the church will continue to be a place of solace and worship and #HereForCulture.
