Church of St. Margaret

The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church dating to the 13th century and with later additions, constructed from flint with limestone dressings and a lead and slate roof. It includes an internal west tower, a north aisle, a south aisle, a 20th-century north service wing, a south porch vestry, and a chancel. The west tower features clasping polygonal buttresses, a 19th-century west window, and two-light belfry openings on each face, incorporating knapped flint in the central spandrels. It is topped with a battlemented parapet. The north aisle has four bays and three three-light Perpendicular windows, alongside 18th-century brick buttresses. The south aisle features four bays, three 19th-century windows, and diagonal buttresses. A 15th-century porch is located in the western bay, with a monogrammed flushwork base course, diagonal buttresses, a doorway with attached shafts, base, and capitals, and carvings of a dragon and figures within the spandrels. A flushwork inscription above the door reads "I.H.S. Nazarences”. A sundial is set into the parapet gable. The south side has two-light Perpendicular openings. The 19th-century vestry, adjoining the chancel, has diagonal buttresses and a single three-light 19th-century window in the north wall. The chancel features a paired two-light, transomed Decorated window with trefoils and quatrefoils in the tracery, a 19th-century priest's door, and a 19th-century three-light window on the south wall. A four-light Perpendicular east window completes the chancel. Perpendicular arches to the nave and aisle support a possibly earlier tower. These arches have paired attached half-octagonal shafts with bases and capitals. A three-bay arcade, in Decorated style, divides the nave and aisles; only one pier in the north arcade may be from the early 14th century. The piers are of the membered type with bases and capitals. The nave has a 19th-century arch braced roof, and the north aisle roof has a similarly decorated arch brace. A cross is set into the north wall. A piscina is located in the south wall and another in the south aisle wall. The chancel arch is flanked by half-round shafts. A triple blind arcade is visible in the north chancel wall, and a double arcade is in the south wall, relating to the window. Decorated style sedilia with ogee arches are present. A 12th-century piscina is carved in the form of a Norman capital, depicting a Norman horseman in chainmail engaged in combat with a dragon. The chancel has a late medieval cambered tie beam roof with short King posts with tracery within the spandrels. A 13th-century octagonal Purbeck marble font has blind arcading on the bowl and a 19th-century base. A wall painting of St. Christopher is located opposite the south west door.