Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1960. A Victorian Church.

Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Margaret

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1960
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Margaret, Oxborough
OS grid reference
TF 741 012
Coordinates
52.58136, 0.56888
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Margaret sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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