Church Of St Margaret Of Antioch

ST 93 SE CHILMARK BARBERRY (north side)

1/72 Church of St. Margaret of Antioch

6.1.66

GV II*

Anglican parish church. C13, C14, C18, restored 1856 by T.H. Wyatt. Limestone ashlar and dressed stones, tiled roof with stone slates to eaves. Plan: cruciform church with north aisle, south porch and north-east vestry, broach spire. Gabled rubble stone south porch has double-chamfered pointed doorway, coped verges. Nave to left has two 2-light square-headed C14 windows with ogee cusping, one to right of porch. South transept has diagonal buttresses, late C13 three-light pointed window of 3 lancet lights to south, single C14 window to east, coped verges with grotesque beasts on kneelers. Chancel has pointed priest's door and three C19 lancets to south side, corbel table with carved animals and faces, east end has angle buttresses. East end has 3- light pointed window with hoodmould with carved head terminals. 1844 vestry has cusped lancets and a shouldered chamfered doorway. 1856 polygonal stair turret in angle between chancel and north transept; cusped lancets and a trefoil. North aisle of 1856 has 4 geometric-style windows, reset west doorway of c1200 has round- arch with roll moulding on cushion capitals. West window is C19 four-light geometric-style with hoodmould and carved head terminals. Crossing tower has early C14 two-light pointed windows to offset bellstage, parapet and broach spire, rebuilt c1770 with string courses and moulded capping. Interior: Perpendicular inner door with hollow-chamfer and hoodmould with busts, C14 niche over. Nave has 5-bay roof with braced collar trusses on foliated corbels, flagstone floors. Four-bay north aisle has double-chamfered pointed arches on alternate cylindrical and octagonal piers, collar-rafter roof. Crossing has quadripartite rib vault with triple-chamfered arches on square chamfered piers. Transepts have 2-bay braced collar truss roofs. South transept has ogee piscina. Chancel has collar-rafter roof, north wall has three C13 lancets, now within vestry, 2 to left have roll-moulded sill, plain hollow-chamfered piscina on south wall. C13 font bowl reset on C19 base, in nave. Good C17 carved wooden pulpit at crossing. Wall tablets include a white marble in chancel to Thomas Harris, died 1825, large limestone and slate tablet on south wall of nave with ball finials on arched architrave and cornice over, to members of Jesse family from 1656 to 1702. Stained glass includes good east window glass of 1843, 2 windows by Heaton and Butler of 1860s; in north aisle to Ellen Tower and south transept to Mary King, and good unsigned glass of 1891 to Rev. Charles Tower. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Wiltshire, 1975; Church Guide of 1975; Kell 's Directory, Wiltshire, 1867.)

Listing NGR: ST9699032791