Parish Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1961. A C14 Church.
Parish Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- under-pedestal-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Margaret, Bilney Lane, Felthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TG 169 173
- Coordinates
- 52.71003, 1.21064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 14th century, with restoration completed in 1878. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has pantiled roofs. The church features a west tower, north aisle, north porch, south aisle, north vestry, nave, and chancel. The west tower is rectangular and includes diagonal buttresses with knapped flint panels. It has a two-light west window with flowing tracery and single-light sound holes. There is a 17th-century bell opening on the west side with a semi-circular brick arch, and the other faces of the tower previously had two traceried light openings. The tower is topped with a 17th-century brick parapet adorned with obelisk pinnacles.
The north aisle consists of three bays with 14th-century traceried two-light windows featuring hood moulds. The 19th-century north porch includes a re-set medieval doorway with attached octagonal colonnettes, and the north door has wave moulding. The south aisle, also from the 19th century, has a diagonal buttress tower and three re-set two-light windows in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. The 19th-century vestry contains a re-set medieval door and doorway. The chancel, primarily from the 19th century, features diagonal buttresses with knapped flint panels and a three-light east window in the Perpendicular style.
Inside, the church is mainly 19th-century in design. It has a double chamfered tower arch with attached shafts, and four-bay arcades supported by octagonal piers with bases and capitals. The north arcade is likely from the 14th century, while the south arcade is probably from the 19th century. There is a single chamfered chancel arch and a 17th-century arch-braced chancel roof on pendant corbels. The piscina has been restored and features a 14th-century cusped ogee head and bowl.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Margaret sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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