Church Of St Margaret

HABROUGH, STATION ROAD (east side), TA 11 SE, 4/3

Church of St Margaret

4.1.67

GV

II

Parish church. Rebuilt 1868-69 by R J Withers of London, with restored C14 arcades, tower and chancel arches. Rough-faced limestone ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Gothic Revival style. West tower, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with vestry adjoining to north. Chamfered plinth. 2-stage tower with low full-width buttresses to north and south sides. Lower stage has pointed 2-light plate-traceried west window with hoodmould continued as string course. Stepped-in upper belfry stage has moulded sill string course and lancets with continuous hoodmould, rising to upper octagonal section with quatrefoiled roundels, string course and octagonal spirelet with lucarnes surmounted by weathercock. Aisles have pointed 2-light plate-traceried windows with hoodmoulds. East extension of north aisle forms vestry with segmental-pointed door and single-light window. 6 pointed trefoiled single-light clerestory windows with hoodmoulds. Chancel: single lancet to north, 2 twin lancets to south with continuous hoodmoulds; triple east lancet with hoodmould and headstops. Continuous sill band. Porch: pointed chamfered outer arch with hoodmould continued as string course; quatrefoiled circular side windows; pointed chamfered inner arch. Interior. Pointed double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers with plain moulded capitals and bases; original shafted responds with octagonal abaci to north arcade. Tall pointed double- chamfered tower arch with chamfered responds. Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch with inner order on original moulded corbels. Chancel has sill string course, hoodmoulds and headstops to windows, carved ashlar reredos, sedile beneath south-east window. C19 fittings, cylindrical font with nailhead moulding on shafted base.

N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 260; Associated Architectural Societies its and Papers, vol 10 pt 1, 1869, p xviii.

Listing NGR: TA1550314310