Church of St. Margaret

Parish church of St. Margaret dates to the 12th century and has been altered since. It comprises a nave, chancel, a south porch, and a round west tower. The walls are of rubble flint, with carr stone and septaria, some parts covered in old render. Slate roofs cover the building, with the chancel roof being higher than the nave. Freestone dressings are present, and the building lacks stone quoins, featuring brick diagonal buttresses to the east end.

The round tower has three stages, retaining original Norman slit windows to the middle stage and two-light windows with flowing tracery to the top stage, topped with a crenellated parapet. A stair turret is located on the north side. The nave has two two-light windows with flowing tracery to the south side, and one to the north. The chancel features Y-tracery windows, and the east end has a three-light window with intersecting tracery. A blocked north door is present, with a round 19th-century window featuring trefoil cusping above. A “priest’s door” is found to the south of the chancel, with a cinquefoil-headed ornamental panel above, possibly of 18th-century Gothick design. The porch has remains of flushwork panels, diagonal buttresses, and an open timber roof with an embattled cornice. A 13th-century south doorway features a pointed arch and continuous moulding.

Inside, the church is simple, with benches, a pulpit and chancel fittings dating to 1854. A 15th-century octagonal font has a four-sided moulded shaft, a low octagonal base, and a bowl supported by winged angel heads, featuring panels with blank shields alternating with flowers and leaves. The font is covered by a flat-topped Jacobean cover. A piscina with a shelf is located below the south-east window of the nave, its cusped head resembling that above the priest’s door. The arms of George II (d.1749) are displayed above the tower arch. The nave roof is plastered, with exposed arch-braced trusses and a moulded cornice. There is no chancel arch. Good late 17th-century altar rails with turned balusters are present, along with a boarded and painted chancel roof.