Church Of St Margaret

CHEPPING WYCOMBE CHURCH ROAD SU 99 SW (TYLERS GREEN) 3/8 Church of St. Margaret - GV II Parish church. 1854, by David Brandon. Chancel altered and extended to E. 1932; N. vestries added 1922; bell tower 1889. Flint with Bath stone dressings and plain tile roofs. Nave, S. porch, chancel, vestries and bell-tower. Coped gables, off-set buttresses. W. end of nave has 2-light window with plate tracery and narrow shafts, stepped string course, and gabled bell-cote. 5 bays of lancet windows with carved foliage hoodmould stops to N. and S. Gabled S. porch with double chamfered arch and carved head hoodmould stops. Chancel has shallow lean-to extension on S. side with 4-light window, each light with a 4-centred head, and 3-light traceried windows in N. and S.sides of E. extension. E. end has round window with geometric tracery, and re-sited carved foundation stone with coat-of-arms. Vestries with arched traceried windows attached to N. Bell-tower, rising from corner of N. vestry, has tall wooden belfry with wooden tracery, louvres and pyramid roof. Both bell-tower and chancel have ornamental gablets to buttresses. Interior: carved angel corbels to roof; double-chamfered chancel arch on corbel shafts with richly carved caps and bases; stone pulpit with angle shafts. (Miles Green, The History of St. Maegaret's Church, Tylers Green, 1984).

Listing NGR: SU9034593753