Church Of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Church.
Church Of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- cold-courtyard-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with grey and red brick dressings, and features roofs made of slate and pantile. The church consists of a west tower, nave, and chancel. The tower is unbuttressed and has three stages, with an iron tie on the north face and repairs in grey brick below. The south window is a lancet, and there is a slit opening on the west face of the ringing chamber. The bell-opening has a two-centred brick arch under a stone hood mould, and the tower is topped with a plain parapet.
The nave has three bays and is buttressed with diagonal buttresses, one of which on the north side has been repaired with brick. There are doorways to the first bay on the north and south sides, both under hood moulds. Each side of the nave features two three-light panel tracery windows, and the roof is made of slate. The chancel is buttressed and consists of two bays with diagonal buttresses. On the south side, there is a priest's door and a two-light window that incorporates re-used pieces of tracery. The north side has a lancet window and a Y-tracery window, while the east window features early 19th-century rendered tracery, with a slate roof.
Inside, the church has an arch-braced roof with plain ashlaring and heads on stone corbels. The brick tower arch is partly obscured by render from 1985 but features six orders with chamfering and one hollow between. There is a doorway to the rood stair with a niche beside it. The chancel arch has been hacked, and there are two rectangular niches to the left of the altar, with a piscina and sidilia to the right. The church contains a 17th-century pulpit, poppy-head bench ends, and an octagonal font supported by four lion heads.
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