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St. Margaret of Antioch

St. Margaret Of Antioch

Lower Halstow

Kent

C8, C12 lean-to aisles

Architectural Features

C13 tower, remodelled C14-C15, restored with new porch 1913 by W.D. Caröe.

Flint, rubble stone and re-used Roman tiles, with plain tiled roof.

Two stage south-west tower, with shingled broach spire and restored lancet window, built into Saxon nave, with restored two-light curvilinear west windows.

Inset and stepped down chancel, with three offset buttresses remains of small round-headed window outlined in tiles, and courses of sloping tiles along base of walls, with three restored Perpendicular two-light windows.

North chancel wall with restored lancet, C20 vestry and Saxon tile-work.

North aisle with C20 buttresses, and C15/C16 champed round-headed lancet windows.

Interior: Saxon nave, original window still in tower wall.

Two bay late C12 arcade to aisles, large square piers with chamfered imposts, plain pointed arches, narrower, totally unmoulded and earlier to south.

Chancel with C13 three bay blind arcading on north and south walls, with attached marble shafts with moulded caps and bases.

C15 crown post roof of three bays.

Early C17 hexagonal pulpit with tester.

Font: Lead , c.1190, bowl with arcade of ten beaded and foliated arches with king and angel repeated under alternate arches.

Carried on Spurbeck marble shafts, at time of re-survey just with wooden font cover - square C17, with C16 ogee cap.

Remnant wall paintings in nave and aisles, C14, representing St. Margaret, St. Andrew.

Also late medieval graffiti in south aisles, and some floor tiles at east end.