Church Of St Margaret

The Church of St. Margaret is a Grade II listed church built in 1858, possibly designed by one of the Haycocks of Shrewsbury. It is constructed from dressed red sandstone with grey sandstone ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The church is designed in an early 14th-century Gothic style and consists of a three-bay nave, a tower, and a one-bay chancel, all aligned from north-east to south-west, with a liturgical north porch.

Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, buttresses with single offsets, and parapeted gable ends that have trefoil-gabled kneelers and moulded finials. The windows are trefoil-headed lancets with chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds that have carved stops. The west end features a wide pilaster buttress with a chamfered cill band, a tall lancet with chamfered reveals and a returned hoodmould, and a moulded cornice where a bellcote once stood. The east window has three trefoil-headed lights with cusped Geometrical tracery and a hoodmould with carved stops.

The south-west doorway includes a boarded door with strap hinges, a moulded archway, a hoodmould with carved stops, and a painted inscription that reads: "I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble." The porch is supported by angle buttresses and features a parapeted gable with trefoil-gabled kneelers and a cross at the apex, along with an entrance that has a moulded arch and a hoodmould with carved stops.

Inside, the nave roof is supported by collar trusses and arch bracing that springs from carved corbels, while the chancel has a single-framed roof. The double chamfered chancel arch rests on colonnettes with moulded bases and carved stiff-leaf capitals, and it has a hoodmould with carved stops. The windows have splayed reveals and chamfered rear arches. The fittings from around 1858 include altar rails, a simple pulpit, an eagle lectern, pews, and an octagonal stone font with a trefoil-headed panelled bowl. The east window contains stained glass in memory of Augusta Margaret Anne Scott, who died on December 8, 1841, while the other windows feature clear leaded glazing. At the time of the survey in March 1985, the church still had gas lighting and is located within the grounds of Betton Strange Hall.