Church Of St Margaret

The Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building located in Abdon. It dates back to the 14th century but was rebuilt in 1731. The church is constructed from stone rubble with ashlar dressing and features a plain-tile roof with a bargeboarded verge.

The layout includes a chancel and nave, along with a bellcote and a south porch. The exterior showcases a single-bay chancel with a restored east window designed in the Decorated style, featuring two cusped lancets with mouchettes beneath a hoodmould with headstops. The south wall also has a Decorated window with two cusped lancets and a trefoil. The nave consists of three bays, with the north side displaying three paired lancets in the Early English style. The south side mirrors this with similar paired lancets flanking the south door, which has an ovolo-moulded two-centred arch. The south porch has a restored roof supported by a twin vertical strut truss with a cambered tie beam, and it includes slots in the principals for a single trenched purlin set on the porch walls. The bellcote features two arched bell openings beneath an ashlar coped canopy.

Inside, the chancel has a single-bay single-purlin roof with swept wind braces on the lower tier, while the west truss features twin raking struts with a cambered tie beam. The nave has a three-bay double-purlin roof supported by three trusses, with straight wind braces on the lower two tiers. The east truss connects to the truss in the chancel and includes a straight tie beam, a king-post with four raking struts on each side, and four posts under the tie beam that form a tripartite entrance to the chancel. There are also two arch-braced collar trusses.