Church Of St Margaret Of Antioch

The Church of St. Margaret of Antioch is an Anglican parish church largely dating to the 13th and 15th centuries, with substantial restoration work carried out in 1868 by G. E. Street. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar detailing, and has 19th-century red plain tile roofs with coped gables. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north porch, south aisle, chancel, and a north vestry.

The four-stage west tower is unbuttressed; the lower stage is from the 13th century and has a renewed west window. The second stage has a single light, and the third stage features small, cusped two-light openings with pierced stone screens. The top stage is of 15th-century ashlar, reminiscent of churches at West Kington and Burton Nettleton, and includes three panels per side, arranged in two tiers of paired cusped panels, with the top centre pair pierced for a bell opening. The tower is finished with panelled battlements and corner pinnacles.

The north side of the nave, dating to the 15th century, contains a renewed three-light Perpendicular style window, followed by a north porch with a shouldered panelled gable, diagonal buttresses, and a high moulded plinth. A moulded pointed arch, with a hoodmould, leads into the porch, above which is a two-light window with a quatrefoil head. The inner doorway has a moulded Tudor arch with trefoil spandrels and a 1868 door. To the left is a four-light renewed Perpendicular style window, also with a hoodmould. An ashlar lean-to vestry, of 1868, is located north of the chancel. The chancel has lancet windows on its north and south sides, likely indicating earlier 13th-century origins, along with diagonal buttresses and a three-light Perpendicular style east window, both from 1868.

The south aisle is gabled, with a moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, and two side buttresses. The east and west walls feature a four-light and three-light Perpendicular style window respectively. The south side has two four-light windows, a door in a moulded surround, and a three-light window, all flat-headed with hoodmoulds and largely renewed in 1868.

Inside, the tower has a moulded segmental pointed arch. The nave has a 19th-century roof. Panelled reveals are present on one north window and on the renewed south aisle windows. A three-bay south arcade comprises two bays of four-centred arches on panelled octagonal piers and responds, with a taller, panelled opening in the third bay, where a former rood stair breaks through the east pier. The chancel arch appears to be 19th century, rising from carved corbels. A particularly noteworthy feature is the exceptional 15th-century stone screen, partially renewed, with eight ogee-headed openings—two over a central ogee arch, and three on each side over quatrefoil panels bearing carved arms or roses. The chancel roof is 19th century, and the east window dates to around 1889. Numerous 17th and 18th-century memorial plaques have been reset in the tower, notably on the south wall, commemorating J. Wilde (died 1702) and M. Wild (died 1734).