Church Of St Margaret

GARVESTONE DEREHAM ROAD TG 00 NW (south side) 6/24 Church of St.Margaret 30/5/60 - II* Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Slate roofs. West tower; nave with south aisle and north porch; chancel. Early Perpendicular west tower with diagonal buttresses. 3-light panel-traceried west window, slit windows to first floor and 2-light bell- openings with single soufflets flanked by super-mullions. Crenellated parapet with flushwork tracery, gargoyles and polygonal corner turrets. South aisle with one restored panel-traceried 2-light west window, a plain- chamfered south doorway, 3 3-light panel-traceried windows with 4-centred heads and an identical east window. North wall with 2 3-light Perpendicular windows, an ovolo-moulded doorway of 2 orders with hood mould and a restored late-Medieval porch. Evidence of former rood stair. Chancel with one 2-light Y-traceried south window and 2 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows to north. Priest's doorway to north and a restored 3-light panel-traceried east window. Interior. 4-bay south arcade of octagonal piers supporting arches of 2 plain-chamfered orders. Wave-moulded tower arch with polygonal responds also wave-moulded. Chancel arch of 2 plain-chamfered orders on 3-shaft responds with intermediate rolls. Chancel piscina with tri-lobe arch flanked by a sedile which probably also served as a window - now blocked. Octagonal font with blank shields surrounded by seaweed carving.

Listing NGR: TG0238207362