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St Margaret

St Margaret

Betley

Staffordshire

Core of circa 1500 with C17 and C18 additions, heavily restored and partially rebuilt in 1842 by Scott and Moffat.

Architectural Features

plain tile roof with shaped tile bands and stone coped verge.

Coped aisle parapets with string course incorporating carved human heads.

Large 5-light pointed east window with sub-arcuated Perpendicular tracery and hollow chamfered hood mould terminating in carved human heads.

Timber arcades of circa 1500: octagonal columns with moulded capitals, from which spring arched braces with ogee and quarter-round mouldings, which form the arches of the arcades and which brace the tie beams of the main roof trusses.

Arch-braced collar roof of 1610 over the chancel

Baluster font in the chancel with scalloped basin, probably C17.

Chapel in the east bay of the north aisle with early C16 screen: Perpendicular with linenfold panels and open arches above, and a carved frieze of vine leaves, grapes and a continuous undulating stem.

C17 hexagonal pulpit with two tiers of panels carved with semi-circular arches springing from Ionic columns

Font, probably C13: cylindrical stem with moulded base, and quatrefoil section basin.

Monuments.

Ralph Egerton, died 1610: three kneeling figures: man, woman, and female child