Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- stony-cornice-aspen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Waterloo Avenue, Leiston
- OS grid reference
- TM 438 625
- Coordinates
- 52.20672, 1.56794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret is a parish church with a 15th-century west tower and the remainder of the church rebuilt in 1854 by E B Lamb. The tower is made of flint and features battlements, with the top section adorned with flushwork decoration and diagonal buttresses. The 19th-century work is designed in the Decorated style, featuring a cruciform plan, constructed of random flint with horizontal stone bands, and topped with a plaintiled roof. Inside, the church is notable for its roof design at the crossing, where diagonal beams converge at two levels and are linked by additional diagonal struts. There is a heavy west gallery and a 13th-century font. The east window, created by Kempe and dated 1897, is also a significant feature. The church is graded II* for its originality of design by an important Victorian church architect.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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