Church Of St Margaret

TG 23 SW SUFFIELD

6/67 Church of St.Margaret 4:10:60 I

Parish church. Medieval. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate and lead roofs. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, chancel, south porch. 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses. Chequered flushwork base. West doorway with rolls and a fillet in the hollow; shields in the spandrels; hood mould. 3-light panel traceried west window; square ringing chamber openings with tracery; 2-light Perpendicular bell-openings. Stair turret to south east corner with quatrefoil lights. 4-bay nave. Buttresses to aisles with brick repairs to 2 south buttresses and one north. 3 3-light Perpendicular windows restored in C19 to south, rood stair to south east angle between aisle and chancel; to north 2 Perpendicular 3-light panel traceried windows under 4-centred arches. One cusped reticulated C14 window of 3 lights. East and west aisle windows of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil over, under segmental arches; 8 clerestorey windows to north and south of 2-lights restored in C19; alternate brick and flint voussoirs. Chancel with diagonal buttresses. 2 Y-tracery windows of c1300 to south; priest's door with undercut moulding to hood mould; 1 lancet. To north 2 Y-tracery windows; east window C19 with 4 lights. Sill band. Memorial tablet of 1723 having achievement to top, skull to apron. Buttressed porch with single cusped light to east and west; doorway with polygonal shaft and abaci; cusped niche over. Nave doorway has continuous chamfer moulding, hood mould with figure stops. Door with Perpendicular blind tracery. In porch a notification of Parish Food Organiser in the event of invasion. Interior. Octagonal piers and abaci to the 4 bay arcade; those to south later and restored; 2 chamfered orders to arch. Arch-braced roofs of 1868 restoration to nave and chancel; C16 arch-braced aisle roofs with tracery in the spandrels. Stoop with ogee arch beside north door. Rood stair. Tower arch has attached shafts and polygonal abaci. Outer continuous order of moulding (q.v. Hanworth). Chancel arch. Continuous chamfered archway, chamfered arch on corbels. Remains of aumbrey. Late C13 Piscina with Purbeck marble shaft and trefoil above. Rere-arch to lancet shafted. Remains of painted rood screen of C15 with dragons, beasts in the spandrels. Re-used poppy-head bench ends in chancel - rest of restoration of 1868. Octagonal font, the bowl supported by angels with instruments of the Passion. Tomb of 1584 in south aisle.

Listing NGR: TG2331931246