Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St Margaret

WRENN ID
second-corridor-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Margaret, Church Lane, Edlington with Wispington
OS grid reference
TF 205 716
Coordinates
53.22859, -0.19604
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church, now closed, built in 1863 by John Atkinson of York. It is constructed from squared grey sandstone rubble with limestone dressings and features slate roofs with stone coped gables and crosses fleury. The church includes a western tower, nave, chancel, south porch, and vestry.

The two-stage tower slightly projects from the west end of the nave and has two stepped buttresses that support a blank pointed arch. The west window has two lights with a trefoil above and a quatrefoil above that. The belfry stage features paired lancets facing the main directions and is topped with a broached spire. The north wall has three paired lancets and a single lancet window, while a chimney with an ashlar stack is located at the northeast angle of the nave. The vestry has a single east window.

The chancel's east window consists of three pointed lights under a hood mould with label stops. The south wall of the chancel has two lancets with hood moulds that have carved decorative label stops depicting birds and animals. The nave's south wall contains two pairs of flush lancets, and the gabled south porch features a single hollow chamfered order to the pointed doorway, complete with a hood mould and label stops, as well as a single chamfered inner doorway.

Inside, the font, pulpit, and a relief of St. Margaret were all carved in stone by the vicar, Rev. Charles Pratt Terrot. There are also monuments to the Philips family, one from 1715 featuring putto heads and a skull, and another from 1720 that is more architectural with pilasters. This family resided at Hall Farm, Wispington from the late 16th century until 1720.

Local climate

Church of St Margaret sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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