St Margarets (church Of England)
Stanstead St Margarets
Hertfordshire
Norman features but largely rebuilt with a N aisle C1316 for Sir William Goldington's collegiate foundation of a charity with 5 chaplains: dissolved 1431, and appropriated to the Priory of Elsing Spittle in London
Architectural Features
Steep old red tile roof with small octagonal wooden cupola at W end
Just E of S door a small round-headed Norman window with incised billet pattern in jambs
C14 S door, 2-light windows in S wall, 4-light E window with early Decorated style flowing tracery flanked inside by foliated ogee-headed niches, and piscina in S chancel window
The crown-posts are octagonal with moulded caps and bases and 4-way bracing in one but braces to collar purlin only in other 2. Cambered moulded tie-beams and arched braces from wall posts on carved stone corbels