Church Of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- far-wattle-furze
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Margaret is a medieval parish church that was restored around 1867. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features lead and slate roofs. The church includes a west tower, nave, south porch, south transeptal chapel, north vestry, and chancel. The two-stage tower has a two-light west window with cusped 'Y' tracery and two-light belfry openings also with 'Y' tracery, infilled with a lattice of medieval bricks. The putlog holes are blocked with brick and stone fragments, and there is a brick parapet.
The south porch has diagonal buttresses and a Perpendicular entrance with half shafts. The nave has four bays, with a door and three windows on the north side and two windows and a door on the south side. The buttresses are set back with flushwork on the face. The south door is in the Perpendicular style, featuring heraldry in the spandrel oculi and oak leaf label stops. The windows are three-light Perpendicular style with tracery and stilted four-centred arches. The church has 19th-century stone moulded eaves and parapet gables.
The south transeptal chapel has diagonal buttresses and a three-light Perpendicular south window with a rectangular head and hood mould. There is a blocked single light window with a four-centred brick arch and saddle bars in the gable above, along with a blocked door to the west and a 19th-century three-light window to the east. The chapel also features a brick parapet gable. The lean-to north vestry has diagonal buttresses and a 19th-century 'Y' traceried east window.
The chancel has two bays with diagonal buttresses and features 15th-century two and three-light windows on the north side. The central priest's door is formed from a re-set Norman arch with chevron decoration, flanked by two three-light Perpendicular windows with tracery and stilted four-centred arches. The east window is in the 19th-century Perpendicular style. The interior is mainly from the 19th century, featuring a Perpendicular tower arch and chancel arch with half shafts. There is a piscina in the south transept, a dropped sill sedilia, and another piscina in the chancel. The church also contains an inscribed brass memorial to Frances Gaudye, who died in 1637, Simon Kidbull who died in 1735, and Jonathan Layton who died in 1801.
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