Church Of The Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary And St Margaret

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Margaret is a Roman Catholic private chapel completed in 1838, with later additions. It is attributed to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and features re-used early brick, with additions in ashlar and gault brick, and slate roofs. The church has an aisleless nave with a polygonal apse that is not oriented, although it is described as if it were. It is designed in the Early Pointed style, with six bays of plain lancet windows that have chamfered reveals. Each bay division is marked by staged buttresses, including those around the five-sided apse. The west wall features a later traceried three-light window inserted into an original opening, along with a small doorway that has a hood mould and a rendered bellcote at the gable peak.

A south chapel, added around 1865 and designed in a late Medieval style, is constructed of ashlar and includes a traceried oculus to the east, a three-light traceried gable window, and a two-light west window. There is a low northern addition in gault brick with three gables, two of which pertain to the vestry and one to the porch. Inside, the church has an arch-braced roof with wall posts supported by crowned angels carrying shields. The south chapel contains a carved marble effigy of the sixth baronet, Sir Henry Richard Paston-Bedingfeld. The church also features imported fittings, including an elaborate painted and carved 17th-century Flemish altar with a reredos, 17th-century carved railings, and Medieval glass.