Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1959. Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- patient-frieze-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Harpsden
- OS grid reference
- SU 763 809
- Coordinates
- 51.52198, -0.90109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Margaret is a Grade II listed building located in Harpsden. It dates back to the 12th century, with 14th-century windows. In 1848, Benjamin Ferrey extended the nave and added a north tower and aisle. Henry Woodyer restored the chancel in 1879. A 20th-century school building is attached to the south.
The church is constructed of flint with stone dressing and features a plain tile roof. It showcases an Early English architectural style, with a four-bay nave and chancel, along with a north aisle and tower. The timber frame gabled porch has a plain tile roof and a 19th-century studded door on the left. To the left of the porch, there is a three-light Perpendicular window and a trefoil-headed lancet. The tower has two stages, with a single lancet window on the first stage and a two-light Early English louvred opening on the second stage, topped by a plain parapet and a pyramidal tiled roof with a weather vane. There are two-light and three-light lancets to the left of the tower, and a studded plank door with a two-centred head leads to the vestry. The east window of the chancel features intersecting tracery, while the south side has four 19th-century Early English windows in the nave and two Early English windows in the chancel. A round-headed doorway from the 12th century leads into the nave.
Inside, there is a Romanesque font that is round with fluted decoration and cable-moulding, along with reset medieval brasses. The nave has an 18th-century queen-post roof.
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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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