Church Of St. Maragret

The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church largely dating to the 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 15th century, 1662, the 18th century, and a complete rebuilding of the chancel in 1859 by Mr. Kirk of Sleaford. It is constructed of coursed and squared limestone rubble. The church comprises a western tower, a nave, a chancel, and a south porch.

The 14th-century tower is of two stages with a broach spire featuring a single tier of lucarnes in the principal directions. It has clasping buttresses, chamfered string courses, and openings with cusped ogee heads. The lower stage has a window with a hood mould and large lion stops. Two 15th-century windows with panel tracery to the heads are present in the north wall of the nave. A 19th-century vestry with trefoil lancets adjoins the north wall. The 1859 chancel is of 19th-century design with a slate roof and windows in a 13th-century style, and is dated 1859 on the south side. The south wall of the nave contains three further 15th-century windows and a contemporary four-centred arched doorway, along with a 14th-century reticulated window. A gabled south porch, dated 1662, features a reset 14th-century arch with double chamfered stonework and side benches. The inner 15th-century door has a four-centred arched head, a chamfered hood with lion stops, and a contemporary statue bracket with a lion's head.

The interior features a continuously moulded double-chamfered arch to the nave, with matching single-chamfered half-arches on either side and arched openings in the side walls, suggesting the former presence of aisles and subsidiary chapels. Narrow pointed arches with plain imposts were built into the blockings of earlier openings, likely during the 18th century. A small 15th-century door is located in the north wall of the nave, and a cusped ogee-headed piscina is in the south wall. The 1859 chancel arch has shafted reveals and a wave-moulded head. The eastern part of the chancel incorporates relief glazed tiles, and contains stained glass by Kempe. Fittings are largely 19th-century, aside from a reset square 13th-century font, now with 17th-century chevron, loop, and lozenge decoration. Two 19th-century ashlar texts with moulded surrounds, ogee heads and embattled tops are set in the east wall of the nave, with a larger similar panel behind the font. An painted panel of the Royal Arms of Charles II is displayed in the inner porch above the south tower arch.

Monuments include a 14th-century matrix of a brass to Thomas de Wasteneys in the tower, an oval marble wall plaque to Ann Bowman (d.1814) on the south wall, depicting a draped urn, and a second oval plaque to Titus Livie (d.1804), store-keeper of a naval dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring a fluted urn with a drooping palm.