Church of St. Margaret

Parish church of St. Margaret was built between 1866 and 1867 by S.S. Teulon. It is constructed of flint and chert with dressings of Lincolnshire Limestone and Bath Stone, with the interior facing of gault and red brick. The roofs are tiled, with a red and black pattern. The church is in the Early English style, with solid masses arranged in a somewhat symmetrical design. The west wall has two lancet windows separated by a stepped buttress, rising to a sexfoiled roundel above. Small roof lights are also present. There are three two-light windows with plate tracery on the north side of the nave and two on the south, the north windows having wide brick relieving arches. A gabled south porch features a moulded entrance arch and low side buttresses. The arcade of windows extends to both the east and west sides. A massive square crossing tower rises from lean-to transepts; the north and south sides have three lancet windows. Below the belfry, the tower transitions to an octagonal plan with broaching. The belfry has paired lancet windows, with splayed spherical triangles on alternating facets. A circular stair turret rises from the south-east corner, topped with a tall conical roof. The transepts have three lancet windows on the main fronts, though one is now blocked on the north side. The north transept includes a west door below a roundel, whilst the south has a vestry against its east gable. The chancel is lit by paired lancets and a single lancet further east, and the east window has a freely interpreted Geometric design.

Inside, the church presents a decorative austerity, with a polychromatic effect created by the use of red brick round arches and window embrasures. The nave has a scissor braced roof with prominent ashlaring. A hexagonal, lobed font features a central drum and orbiting marble shafts. The rere arches to the windows are exaggerated, and the crossing arches are taller to the east and west, where responds die into the wall; the north and south arches die into walls without responds. The chancel has a timber arched barrel roof. Stepped double sedilia and a double piscina are arranged unusually one above the other. Stained glass in the chancel, created by William Morris and Company to designs by Sir Edmund Burne-Jones in 1881, depicts Humility and Faith on the north side, and Hope and Charity on the south. The east window contains a depiction of the Resurrection, dated 1901.