Church Of St Maragret

The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century, with early 14th-century elements, and was restored in 1866. It is constructed from carstone, flint, and clunch, featuring ashlar quoins and slate roofs, with the south aisle having a leaded roof. The church comprises a west tower, nave, aisles, and chancel. The two-stage tower has short angle buttresses on the west side and an arched west door dating to around 1300. Each face of the tower has lancet windows, and there is a string course marking the division of the storeys. The belfry windows are two-light, four-centred, with the eastern window set square above the original roof line. A string course runs below the 16th-century brick crenellated parapet, which has corner pinnacles. A wall sundial is attached to the south face of the belfry stage. The aisles feature diagonal west buttresses and three flat flanking buttresses that frame three two-light square-headed 19th-century windows. The north aisle has a diagonal east buttress, and the south chancel is lit by two wide 19th-century lancets. The east window of the chancel is a triple lancet, all with renewed 19th-century masonry. The north chancel has a renewed lancet to the east of a 19th-century lean-to vestry, which is lit by paired lancets to the east and accessed through two arched north doors.

Inside, the tower lancets have deep internal splays. The church features three bay arcades supported by quatrefoil piers with deep hollows between the lobes, and the capitals and bases were renewed in 1866. The arches are double chamfered. The nave roof is a plain scissor-braced structure from the 19th century, with three tiers of butt purlins, while the aisle roofs also consist of principals and purlins from the same period. A 14th-century octagonal font is present, and there is a blocked early 13th-century tower arch that has been replaced by an arch from around 1300. The chancel arch features double hollow chamfers, and the chancel roof is a 19th-century scissor-braced structure that is boarded and plastered.

Notable interior features include a marble wall monument in the south aisle dedicated to Christopher Adamson, dated 1786, which is framed by Ionic pilasters and supports a broken pediment with an apical coat of arms. The apron of black marble carries two additional coats of arms. In the south chancel wall, there is another marble wall monument to John Heaton, dated 1779, featuring fluted Doric pilasters with dentils at the base, block architraves with roundels framing the inscription tablet, and an entablature that supports a swept plinth with a coat of arms and a bust of John Heaton.