Church Of St Margaret

The Church of St Margaret is a medieval parish church constructed primarily of flint with stone and brick dressings, and covered by slate and lead roofs. The church consists of a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, chancel, and a south porch.

The four-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses and a chequered flushwork base. The west doorway has rolls, a fillet, and shields within the spandrels, topped by a hood mould. Above is a three-light panel traceried window. The ringing chamber has square openings with tracery, and the bell openings are two-light Perpendicular windows. A stair turret is located on the south east corner, with quatrefoil lights.

The four-bay nave has buttresses to the aisles, with brick repairs to two south and one north buttresses. South aisle windows are three-light Perpendicular windows restored in the 19th century, with a rood stair positioned between the aisle and chancel. To the north, there are two three-light panel traceried windows under 4-centred arches, along with one 14th-century window of three lights with a reticulated design. The east and west aisle windows have two cusped lights with a quatrefoil above, set within segmental arches. There are eight restored clerestory windows of two lights to the north and south, constructed with alternating brick and flint voussoirs.

The chancel has diagonal buttresses and two south windows with Y-tracery from around 1300, a priest's door with undercut hood moulding, and a single lancet. A north side has two Y-tracery windows and a 19th-century east window with four lights. A sill band runs along the chancel. A memorial tablet from 1723 displays an achievement at the top and a skull on the apron.

The buttressed south porch has a single cusped light to the east and west, and a doorway with a polygonal shaft and abaci, topped by a cusped niche. The nave doorway has a continuous chamfer moulding and a hood mould with figure stops, leading to a door with blind Perpendicular tracery. Inside the porch is a notification relating to a Parish Food Organiser in the event of invasion.

The interior features octagonal piers and abaci to the four-bay arcade; the south side is later and restored, with two chamfered orders to the arch. The nave and chancel have arch-braced roofs from a 1868 restoration; the aisle roofs are 16th-century arch-braced with tracery in the spandrels. A stoop with an ogee arch stands beside the north door. A rood stair is present. The tower arch has attached shafts and polygonal abaci, displaying an outer continuous order of moulding. A chancel arch features a continuous chamfered archway and chamfered arch on corbels. There are remains of an aumbrey. A piscina from the late 13th century has a Purbeck marble shaft and a trefoil above, with a rere-arch to a lancet shaft. Fragments of a 15th-century painted rood screen remain, including depictions of dragons and beasts within the spandrels. Re-used poppy-head bench ends are located in the chancel, along with other elements from the 1868 restoration. An octagonal font has a bowl supported by angels holding instruments of the Passion. A tomb from 1584 is situated in the south aisle.