Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- moated-latch-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Church Lane, Beesby with Saleby
- OS grid reference
- TF 457 787
- Coordinates
- 53.28581, 0.18543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret is a parish church built in 1850 by Stephen Lewin and restored in 1958. It is constructed of buff brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with stone copings. The church includes a nave with a western bellcote, a south aisle, a chancel, and a south porch.
The west window has three lights with intersecting tracery and a trefoil lancet to the south. The gabled bellcote features two trefoil-headed arches with a quatrefoil above. The north wall has three paired lights with geometrical tracery, separated by stepped buttresses, while the chancel contains a similar two-light window. The east window has three lights, with a hood mould that includes portrait human head stops. The south wall of the chancel features a two-light pointed window, and the south wall of the aisle has two reticulated two-light windows.
The gabled south porch has a double chamfered outer doorway with a moulded hood and a single chamfered inner doorway. Inside, there is a 19th-century three-bay south arcade with octagonal shafts and triple chamfered arches, along with a chamfered chancel arch supported by octagonal responds and human head corbels. In the chancel, there is a pointed doorway in the south wall. All fittings are from the 19th century, including an octagonal font carved in a 15th-century style. The three-bay rood screen and rood are from the 20th century.
On the north wall of the chancel, an arched recess contains a full-length effigy of a knight in chain mail and surcoat, believed to be Sir William de Hardreshull, who died in 1303. The chancel floor also features a small brass for George Harrington, who died in 1556 and is buried in St. Dunstans Church, London, as well as another brass inscribed to John Haryington of Wickham, who built the chapel in 1592 and died on May 12, 1599, both displaying arms and helms. At the east end of the chancel is the old datestone of the original chapel, which bears the Haryington Arms and is dated "1591."
Local climate
Church of St Margaret receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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