Church Of St Margaret

Church of St Margaret

Parish church completed in 1934, designed by Flockton & Son. Constructed in coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with coped gables, the building displays Perpendicular Revival style with a plinth.

The church follows a cruciform plan with a single-bay chancel, crossing, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, a baptistry, south porch, north transept, and a south-east tower.

The chancel features a transomed single lancet on each side and a segmental pointed 3-light window to the east with hoodmould, flanked by narrow lancets with traceried transoms. The clerestory has two 4-light windows on each side in the centre and at each end a 2-light window flanked by single light windows, all with flat heads. The nave's west end displays a segmental pointed 3-light window with hoodmould. Below is a canted single-storey baptistry with coped parapet and a 5-light window flanked by 2-light windows with flat heads.

The buttressed south aisle contains two 4-light windows centrally, a 2-light window flanked by single lights to the west, and to the east a 2-light window and door. The north aisle has similar fenestration. Both aisles feature a 2-light window at the west end. All openings have flat heads.

The gabled south porch has a double chamfered doorway. The north transept displays a 3-light pointed arch window flanked by single lancets, with a 2-light window above. To the west is a flat-roofed porch with parapet, 2-light window and door.

The square, unbuttressed south-east tower is single stage with plinth, sillband, string course and stepped crenellated parapet. To the east and south stands a tall segmental pointed recess containing a 3-light pointed arch window with above a traceried transom and triple louvred bell opening. The west side has a corresponding blank recess.

The interior crossing has a double chamfered Tudor arch on each side with imposts; the north arch is occupied by a concrete block wall carrying an organ gallery, with the remaining arches open. A panelled wagon roof spans the crossing. The chancel has a similar roof with a 5-light window to the east and single windows to north and south with traceried transoms. The east end contains a late 20th-century wooden reredos. A Lady Chapel beneath the tower has a flat ceiling and wooden war memorial reredos with painted panels dating to around 1920. The nave has a similar panelled wagon roof with cross beams and collars with struts, supported by narrow stone wall shafts on corbels. Four-bay arcades feature double chamfered Tudor arches with imposts and chamfered square piers; at the west are pointed arched doors to north and south. A wide Tudor arch at the west end opens to the baptistry with a resited stained glass window above. The aisles have panelled lean-to roofs; the south aisle includes an internal west porch with half-glazed door, a double door to the south-east, and an arched opening to the Lady Chapel. The north aisle has a wooden porch to the north-east with half-glazed double doors.

Fittings include an octagonal stone font with late 20th-century cover, a mid-20th-century panelled octagonal pulpit and benches, and a traceried wooden lectern, desk and altar rail from 1962.

Memorials include a pedimented wooden war memorial with encaustic tile panels from 1918 and a war memorial board from 1945.