St Margaret'S Church

TG 2208 NE ST. BENEDICT'S STREET (north side) 15/722 25.2.54 St. Margaret's Church GV I Former parish church, now redundant and used as gymnasium. C14 and C15. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate roof. West tower. Nave and chancel with south aisle. North and south porches. Rood-stair turret on north side. C19 vestry north of chancel. 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses to first three stages. C20 west door and window. Square sound holes and 2-light belfry windows with decorated tracery. Crenellated parapet. 2-storey south porch at west end of aisle with attached shafts and 2-centre arch with carved spandrels to outer door. Central statue niche with flanking square-headed windows at first floor. Simple tierceron-vault inside. 2 4-light perpendicular windows with 4-centre arches to aisle. 2-bay chancel with 3-light windows having cusped intersecting tracery and 4-centre arches. 3-light C19 east window. Octagonal arcade piers having concave sides and 4-centre arches. Tower and chancel arches. Shallow pitch single butt-purlin roof with curved braces springing from wall-posts supported on corbels. The south aisle roof has wheel tracery spandrels.

Listing NGR: TG2265708812