Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1967. A Victorian Church.

Church of St Margaret

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1967
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of St Margaret, Wormhill, High Peak
OS grid reference
SK 124 741
Coordinates
53.26451, -1.81473
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building that underwent rebuilding and enlargement in 1864, transforming a 13th-century chapel designed by T H Rushforth. Additional transepts were added between 1904 and 1910. The church is constructed from coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings and some tufa used in the tower. It features coped gables and slate roofs laid in diminishing courses.

The layout includes a west tower, south porch, nave, chancel, and north and south transepts with a sanctuary. The square, unbuttressed tower, which is partially from the 13th century, has single light openings with trefoils beneath flat hoods on the first, third, and fourth stages. The west wall of the tower features a 13th-century pointed arched window with a trefoil head. The tower is topped with a 'helm' roof similar to that of Sompting in Sussex, adorned with decorative banded slating.

The south porch has a doorway with a pointed arch, a coped gable, and a slated roof. The nave consists of three bays with a buttressed east end, featuring 2-light openings with trefoil heads beneath depressed arches. The transepts are single bay structures that include trefoil-headed lancets and 2-light gable windows with decorative style tracery beneath hoodmoulds with carved tops. The east window is a three-light design, also in the decorative style, complete with a hoodmould and carved stops. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Church of St Margaret sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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