The Parish Church of St Margaret the Queen

The Parish Church of St Margaret the Queen is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with significant alterations and additions spanning several centuries. The original west tower was built in the 13th century and heightened in the 18th century. The main body of the church includes a four-bay arcade from around 1300, and a chancel dating to approximately 1300, with 15th-century aisle walls and a north porch. A clerestory was added in the 17th century. The church is constructed from sandstone rubble and has tiled roofs. The building comprises a chancel, a south chancel or family pew, a north transept, a nave with aisles, a north porch, and a west tower with a broached shingled spur.

The three-stage west tower features a circular opening to the 18th-century bell stage and 13th-century lancets below, with corner buttresses. The clerestory has three 17th-century triple mullion windows. The north aisle has a Perpendicular window with two double cinquefoil-headed lights, and a Perpendicular north porch with a crenellated parapet. A north transept contains a large traceried window.

Internally, the nave has a Perpendicular canted four-bay ceiling with elaborate tie beams, supported on stone corbels. The south arcade features round piers with double chamfered arches, while the north arcade has alternating octagonal and round columns supporting double hollow chamfered arches. A late 13th-century font is of square Purbeck type on five supports with flat, blank arches that are pointed and trefoiled. The Jacobean pulpit has blank arches and elaborate floral carving. The chancel has a canted plastered ceiling dating to approximately 1600, with panels featuring geometrical motifs, and a frieze of long-branched flowers in vases. A late 17th-century communion rail features dumb-bell balusters. The piscina and sedilia are likely a rare 17th-century example. Two bench ends have fleur de lys poppy heads. A late 13th-century chest is also present.

Monuments within the church include a brass to Britellus Avenel, rector in the later 14th century, featuring an ogee cross with a demi-figure of the rector; a monument to Deonicius Slon (d.1485), depicting a demi-figure of a priest, 12 inches long; a marble wall tablet dedicated to George Medley (d.1796) by C. Regmast, featuring a grieving lady by an urn; two plain wall tablets by Sir R. Westmacott; and a white marble plaque commemorating Basil Ionides (d.1950).