Church of St Margaret of Antioch

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 24 February 2025 to update the architect details

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SOUTHEND ON SEA LIME AVENUE Church of St Margaret of Antioch

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Anglican church, completed in 1931 to architectural designs by Sir Charles Nicholson and Graham Lloyd; the north aisle was added in 1938 to architectural designs by Nicholson and Thomas Johnson Rushton. Early Italian Romanesque style with basilica plan. Concrete, roughcast rendered, brick bands and dressings. Clay pantiles to nave, aisle roofs leaded. Five-bay nave, two-bay apsed chancel, south chapel, north and south aisles, small north chapel, vestries to south. The detached Campanile to south west is separately reconunended- East end, high single-light round headed window with square leaded lights to north chapel, apse with three similar windows, south chapel with Venctian window with leaded lights as before. South aisle has a range of four round-headed windows with tile arches, above projecting single storey vestries flanking a central door. Clerestorey with range of four lunette windows. West end symmetrical with a central entrance, a brick arch over double doors with statue of patron saint over. Oculus above, with tile surround. Aisles slightly recessed each with round arched window ffiazed as before and a small round headed window with square headed light. North aisle with range of four round arched windows detailed as before and a central door under round arch.

INTERIOR: Open kingpost roof of 13 bays, painted roof boarding, Tuscan nave colonnades and moulded comice. West organ gallery with later glazed screen below. Font base of black marble and elaborate wooden cover. Chancel slightly re-ordered with central altar of 1986, but circular floor in keeping with original conception. [Pevsner, Buildings of England: Essex, 2nd Edn; p.353.1]

Listing NGR: TQ8340886641