St Margaret

C13 work but predominantly C15, restored 1895.

Coursed rubble and ashlar, triple-Roman tile and slate roofs, crested ridges, coped verges.

Tower new built 1434, embattled, 3 stages, corner pinnacles on shafts, diagonal buttresses with offsets terminating on third stage

gargoyles

3-light west window, west door in richly moulded surround, carved heads as label stops.

Four bay aisle of late C15/early C16, embattled parapet, nerlons pierced by quatrefoils

gargoyles

Three bay nave with Norman herringbone stonework on north wall

3-light windows with C19 tracery except 2-light on north wall of c.1300.

North chapel 1434 for Sir John Hylle, 3-light square head window

Short buttressed chancel with C19 lancet, C14 3-light east window, restored plate tracery.

to south aisle and south chapel C15/C16 with ribs and bosses, plaster pendant, C18 cornices with egg and dart enrichment

to nave C15 with ribs, similar cornices

Virtually complete set of pews dated 1536 and 1561, carved square-headed ends, amongst the motifs birds, a fuller and his tools, Renaissance heads in medallions, plants and stylised ornament

Exposed back of one of the extensive range of carved pews with one showing the local trade of cloth fulling [[3158113]].

© Peter Turner

carved readers.

Scraped font, probably C14, on a moulded base.

In chancel, monument to Sir John Hylle and his lady of c1434, reclining figures on tomb-chest with panel arched at head and foot and containing shields, cusped and sub cusped 4-centred arch, panelled inside, high attic with panels containing shields, much foliate decoration.

C15 chest.

Two C19 candelabra utilising C17 wooden columns with interlacing vine decoration, most likely they originally supported a loft at rear of nave.

Medieval alas box.

C19 pulpit with re-used Jacobean panels.

C19 decalogue plaques, lectern, altar rail, reredos, choir stalls and organ.

Several iii slabsi wall monument of 1734

C19 monument by Wood of Bristol

7 further principal C19 monuments, executed in stone and in brass.

Royal arms.

Much good late C19 stained glass.

C17 and two C18 bells.