St Margaret Of Antioch

Late C13 or early C14 S aisle, enlarged later in C14

Tower raised in C15

S aisle altered in C16

3 stage W tower: 2 lower stages are C12

3 sides of 2nd stage have restored C12 round headed windows, roll moulded surrounds with bases

String course to C15 belfry stage, 2 light louvred openings with pointed arched foiled heads, string course with grotesque carvings to embattled parapet

S aisle: C14 added bay, now a vestry, extends as far W as tower

C14 curvilinear traceried 2 light pointed arched W window

S elevation has a blocked C14 entrance to left of centre, double wave moulded pointed arch with hood mould, three 3 light C16 windows, hollow moulded 4 centred arched heads, hood moulds, rectilinear traceried heads except to slightly later central window, a C19 vestry entrance to far left, central buttress

Chancel is as wide and nearly as tall as nave, both have steeply pitched roofs, coped gable parapets with ridge crosses to E, crest tiles on nave

Interior: C12 tower arch is off centre to widened nave, plain round arch with splayed impost blocks

In tower a C14 chamfered pointed arched doorway to S aisle, above a C12 round headed window with a deeply splayed embrasure

S arcade is late C13, 3 bays extended by 1 bay to E in C19, double order to pointed arches, chamfered except an inward facing inner hollow moulding, broach stops to outer mouldings, octagonal piers with moulded bases and bell capitals, added bay is taller but similar

S aisle near E end has the lower portion of a C14 piscina with wave moulded jambs and a hexafoil bowl

Chancel has Gothic polychromy, blind niches flank reredos to E, double sedilia to S, varicoloured marbles, alabaster, tiles and painted decoration on walls

A good pulpit dated 1626, octagonal with richly carved arched and foliate panels, shaped brackets to book rest, panelled back rises to tester with carved soffit and pendant drops

C19 choir stalls incorporate remains of C15 chancel screen with traceried panels

Square font by Butterfield, an inner circular stem with 8 outer marble shafts to a massive bowl with Gothic tracery

Monuments: S aisle W wall: a reset brass to A. Willet, d.1621, an oval marble tablet, inscribed with arms above to T. Rutherforth, d.1771, another classical epitaph with scrolled jambs to A. Eyre, d.1716

S aisle S wall has a reset brass palimpsest, C15 and C16

In window sill above a carved bishop's head

Glass: E window, Crucifixion, 1872 by Hardman, S aisle figural fragments with date 1536, N aisle E end a small C14 Crucifixion, W tower small C14 God. (The Builder, vol.XXX, No.1536, July 13, 1872: