Church Of St Margaret

The Church of St. Margaret is a church that features a tower built in 1817, with the rest of the structure rebuilt in 1899 by E. Isle Hubbard following a fire in 1897. The tower is made of ashlar sandstone, while the rest of the church is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone with red tile roofs. The building is designed in the Gothic revival style and includes a three-stage west tower, a six-bay aisled nave that overlaps with an additional bay of the tower, and a lower two-bay chancel that has a north chapel and a gabled, two-storey vestry projection on the south side.

The tower has offset angle buttresses that rise as pinnacles above an embattled parapet, with a string course at each stage. The west door features a pointed arch, and there are intersecting glazing bars above it, along with a pointed hoodmould beneath a flat-headed hoodmould. The second stage of the tower has a two-light window with Y-tracery, and similar two-light belfry openings that include louvres, inset clockfaces, and hoodmoulds. The nave has offset buttresses between the aisle bays, and the aisles and clerestorey are adorned with coupled, pointed windows that share hoodmoulds, which have floral and head-carved hoodstops. The gable copings are finished with moulded kneelers and crosses. The chancel is designed in the same style, with a vestry that has a priest door to the left of a three-light window, and a stepped three-light window above it. The east window features five stepped lights.

Inside, beneath the tower, there are two panelled doors set in reeded architraves, and a date plaque that records the rebuilding. The nave has circular piers with moulded capitals supporting double-chamfered arcades, and hoodmoulds that spring from carved corbels, from which attached columns rise to corbels of hammer-beam trusses. The aisle windows include central colonnettes that lead to cusped-headed inner lights. There is a four-bay blind-arcaded panel above the tower door, and a tall, double-chamfered chancel arch with a two-bay arcade leading to the north chapel.