Church Of St Margaret

CLAIFE WRAY NY 30 SE Church of St Margaret 3/16 Wray 25.3.70 GV II

Church. 1845. Possibly by H.P. Horner. Dressed stone with ashlar window dressings, slate roof. Nave, chancel with south tower and north vestry. 3-bay nave has 3-light west window with Decorated tracery and angle buttresses; gable cross. North and south facades have cusped lancets, between weathered buttresses. South porch is gabled, the gable with sundial dated 1856 and cross; clasping buttresses and plain-chamfered pointed entrance. Tower has deep weathered diagonal buttresses and corbelled-out embattled parapet. Canted stair turret to west on square base with clasping buttresses and small entrance. West 2-light window; 2nd stage has cusped lancets to south and east. Bell stage has 2 trefoil-headed louvred bell-openings to each side. Chancel has 3-light east window, angle buttresses and gable cross, as has nave east gable. Octagonal vestry has swept pyramidal roof and cross; small trefoil-headed lights to east and north-west. Interior has waggon roof with ashlaring, plain chancel arch and arches to vestry and organloft under tower. Stalls have tracery panels on north side. Tracery panels also to reredos. Good stained glass to east window. Canon Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust, was an incumbent of this church.

Listing NGR: NY3722500754