Church of St. Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St. Margaret
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church with origins in the 12th century, significantly remodelled in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1876 and the tower in 1900 by H. Green, the Diocesan architect. The building is constructed of cut Quaternary and quarry flint with dressings of Lincolnshire Limestone and Bath Stone ashlar, some brick, and has thatched roofs.
The church comprises a west tower, a nave, and a chancel. The three-stage, square, unbuttressed west tower features a two-light west window with a four-petal vesica. Clock faces are located on the west and south sides. A string course sits below the belfry stage, above which are two-light louvred belfry windows. The tower is topped by a crenellated parapet. A gabled south porch has side buttresses and an arched, moulded entrance. Two two-light side windows are present. The earlier fabric of the church is difficult to discern. A 12th-century inner south doorway remains, featuring two orders of shafts, the inner engaged and the outer with cushion capitals and bases. The arch has an inner roll, deep zig-zag rolls, and a double billet hood. All the church's windows are 19th-century replacements. Three two-light Perpendicular windows are on the south side, along with two small lancets above the porch and a three-light dormer in the thatch. There are also three flint and brick stepped buttresses to the north side of the nave, a wall of whole flints, and remains of a billet hood to the now-obscured north doorway. Two two-light Perpendicular windows are present on the north side alongside two trefoiled lancets. A single stepped buttress is present on the north and south sides of the chancel. Further features include two two-light cusped Y tracery south windows, a priests' door in the north chancel wall, diagonal stepped eastern buttresses, and a three-light east window.
Inside, a doorway leads into the tower, and a western gallery of timber dates to 1876, lit through a dormer window. The nave has an arched-braced roof of the 19th century, and the chancel has a scissor-braced roof also from the 19th century. A chamfered chancel arch rests on polygonal responds. An octagonal font of 19th century design is present, decorated with shields and emblems in the bowl panels. A brass commemorates Joannes Burton, who died in 1608, depicting a kneeling figure in ecclesiastical costume praying at a stall, with a perspective tiled floor reminiscent of Flemish Renaissance painters, an inscription panel below. A wall monument commemorates George Fisher, who died of wounds received at Gaza in 1917. Rosettes and other ornamental details are abundant throughout.
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