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Saint Margaret

Shillington

Bedfordshire

C14 and C15 details, but extensively reworked 1879-80 by Burton and Wood

Architectural Features

Gabled clay tile roofs

NW window of 2 trefoiled lights, retaining some C14 tracery

C15 pointed-arched priest's door

Early C14 pointed chancel arch

Early C14 3-bay N arcade with pointed arches

Interior: cinquefoiled ogee-headed piscina and sedilia are C15 but reworked

Font, octagonal on heavy octagonal shaft, thought to be C17 or C18

Wall monument in chancel to Edmund Castell, Semitic scholar and professor of Arabic at Cambridge and rector of Higham Gobion from 1674 until his death in 1685

Last line of tablet is in Arabic, and is translated as "He elected to be buried in this spot in hopes of a better". Wall monument in nave to Thomas Halfpenny, d.1684

Brasses in chancel wall to Jane Cason, d.1603, and to Catherine Browne, d.1602 (both daughters of the Butler family, who held the manor) and their chidren

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