Church Of St Maragret

The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church located in Little Dunham, dating from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings, and features black pantile and slate roofs. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a chancel. The tower is built in the Perpendicular style, characterized by diagonal western buttresses and a flat stair turret projection on the south side. The west doorway is moulded and adorned with carved head label stops, while above it is a three-light Perpendicular window, quatrefoil soundholes, two-light cusped bell-openings, and a plain parapet.

The south door, dating from the 13th century, has dying arch mouldings and one order of colonnettes with bell capitals, along with crowned head label stops and a female head in a quatrefoil above the doorway. The south wall of the nave and chancel features three 13th-century lancets, a two-light Perpendicular window with an embattled transom, and a similar Victorian replica. The north aisle contains three partially restored two-light curvilinear 14th-century windows, a double lancet to the west, and a triple lancet (probably re-set) to the east. The north aisle originally extended alongside the chancel, leaving two blocked arches and a simple piscina. The east window is a Victorian Geometric design.

Inside, the church has a 13th-century three-bay nave arcade and a former three-bay chancel arcade, now reduced to one bay. The fine quadrilobe piers have bell capitals and arches of two hollow chamfered orders. A carved corbel depicting a human head with horns, flanked by foliage, supports the westernmost chancel arcade. The chancel arch is no longer present. The 15th-century tower arch features facetted responds and capitals. There is a simple nave piscina and a 13th-century angle piscina-cum-sedilia in the chancel, which includes a bell capital on a colonnette and a shaped armrest. Remnants of medieval decorative paintwork can be seen on the arches of the two blocked bays of the chancel north arcade. The church has group value with the Old Rectory.