Church of St Margaret is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval and later Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- quiet-latch-coral
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Church Lane, Stanfield
- OS grid reference
- TF 939 207
- Coordinates
- 52.74968, 0.8724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs. The building features a west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel. The early 14th-century west tower has a pair of diagonal buttresses and includes a 2-light cusped Y-traceried west window along with 2-light plain Y-traceried bell-openings. The 14th-century porch has an arched entrance with dying moulding, carved label stops, and kneeler finials depicting mutilated kneeling figures. There are 14th-century nave doorways and six late Perpendicular, flat-headed, 3-light panel-traceried nave windows with straight hood moulds that feature finely carved stops.
The chancel, dating from the 13th century, has three remodelled lancets on the north side, a 3-light east window in the 19th-century Decorated style, and two original lancets along with one 2-light Y-traceried window on the south side, all with hood moulds. The chancel arch is from the 14th century and consists of two plain-chamfered orders on polygonal responds with bell capitals. The chancel windows have nook shafts and deeply moulded scoinson arches, and there is a double piscina with trefoil arches.
Inside, there is a 17th-century communion rail with shaped board balusters and patterned rails, and a 15th-century 5-bay chancel screen featuring tracery and spandrel carvings. The pulpit is a two-deck design with an elaborately carved 17th-century polygonal box, an 18th-century tester, and a later clerk's desk. The church also contains 19 late medieval poppy-head bench ends with animal arm rests, a plain octagonal font with a Jacobean cover on turned balusters, and cock's-head hinges on the opening sides, with simple scrolls above supporting a ball finial. Additionally, there are fragments of medieval glass present.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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