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St Margaret

St Margaret

Ratlinghope

Shropshire

Medieval origins, rebuilt early C17 and c.1788, restored in mid to late C19 and again more thoroughly in 1904-05.

Architectural Features

Gabled south porch with segmental arch covers an early C17 round headed doorway

the door itself is nail studded and has the inscription "Anno Domini 1625 made and given by Humphrey Biggs and Tho.

Bright then Churchwardens." INTERIOR: tie- and collar-beam roof in four bays with double purlins, the two western trusses probably being early C17

The plain octagonal font comes from Great Hanwood

all the other furnishings and stained glass are of 1905.

Until the Dissolution the church served the Augustinian Priory, established here during C12

which by c.1209 had become a dependent cell of Wigmore Abbey (Herefs.).