Church Of St Margaret

The Church of St Margaret is a parish church located on Dereham Road in Garvestone. It dates from the medieval period and later, constructed from flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, and features slate roofs. The church has a west tower, a nave with a south aisle, a north porch, and a chancel.

The early Perpendicular west tower is notable for its diagonal buttresses, a three-light panel-traceried west window, slit windows on the first floor, and two-light bell openings with single soufflets flanked by super-mullions. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet that includes flushwork tracery, gargoyles, and polygonal corner turrets.

The south aisle contains a restored two-light panel-traceried west window, a plain-chamfered south doorway, three three-light panel-traceried windows with four-centred heads, and an identical east window. The north wall features two three-light Perpendicular windows, an ovolo-moulded doorway of two orders with a hood mould, and a restored late-medieval porch. There is also evidence of a former rood stair.

The chancel has a two-light Y-traceried window on the south side and two two-light cusped Y-traceried windows on the north side, along with a priest's doorway to the north and a restored three-light panel-traceried east window.

Inside, the church features a four-bay south arcade supported by octagonal piers with arches of two plain-chamfered orders. The tower arch is wave-moulded with polygonal responds that are also wave-moulded. The chancel arch consists of two plain-chamfered orders on three-shaft responds with intermediate rolls. There is a chancel piscina with a tri-lobe arch flanked by a sedile, which likely also served as a window but is now blocked. The octagonal font is adorned with blank shields surrounded by seaweed carving.