Church of St Margaret is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- former-keystone-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Wetton, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 108 553
- Coordinates
- 53.09566, -1.83911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church with a 14th-century tower, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1820. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The structure includes a single bay chancel and a two-bay nave that are combined, along with a south porch and a west tower. The chancel and nave have a shallow plinth and a moulded eaves cornice, with pointed windows that display Y-tracery and rusticated quoins. The gabled south porch has a moulded cornice on the sides and a four-centred doorway with a hollow chamfer. The west tower, dating from the early 14th century, has massive sandstone quoins, a west window with Y-tracery, and features such as offsets and gargoyles at the belfry stage. The belfry lights also have Y-tracery, and there is a parapet band with gargoyles and plain drainage spouts, topped by a crenellated parapet with corner finials.
Inside, there is no structural division between the nave and chancel, and a pointed tower arch leads into the space. The roof features a king post design with braces that spring from stone corbels. Notable fittings include an early 19th-century pulpit and a balustraded altar rail, along with a ladder in the west tower made of split logs pegged together, which is of indeterminate date. The bell cage is constructed from massive oak timbers.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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