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St Margaret

Leaden Roding

Essex

Nave late C12, chancel late C14, restored C19.

Architectural Features

The three-light E window is C19 except the internal splays, rear-arch and label, which are late C14 or early Cl5.

In the S wall are 2 late C14 windows each of 3 trefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head, both partly restored, with moulded jambs and two-centred arch, with the internal string-course mitred round the three-sided rear-arch.

The C14 or C15 chancel-arch has chamfered responds and a four-centred arch of 2 chamfered orders.

The lower parts of the responds were said by the RCHM to be of C12 stones re-set.

The nave has in the N wall 3 C12 windows each of a single round-headed light.

The westernmost has early wrought ironwork and leaded plain glass.

Between the 2 western windows is the C12 N doorway with a semi-circular arch and jambs enriched with a vertical line of diaper ornament

In the S wall are 3 C12 windows, the easternmost of 2 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head, partly restored.

Between these windows is the C12 S doorway of 3 orders

In the W wall is a window of 2 round-headed lights which the RCHM considered to be C18, but Persner says may be C17,

above it a C12 round-headed window, rebated externally.

There are 2 moulded tiebeams, late C14, and moulded wallplates finished with carved floral basses against the E wall, late C14.

The nave roof is C19, incorporating ashlar- pieces most of which are original, 2 straight tiebeams with plain square crownposts and curved axial braces, hollow-chamfered and step-stopped wallplates, all C15.

in the SE corner a piscina with two-centred head and moulded label with finial, and octfoiled drain, late C14.

In the N wall a recess with low ogee arch, foiled near springing, moulded label with crockets, finial and stop of a woman's head (much decayed), late C14, possibly for a monument to the builder of the chancel.

In the recess of the SE window, sedilia with 3 bays of obtuse trefoiled arcading on 2 head corbels, the S one reported by the RCHM to be of a bishop but now barely identifiable, late C14.

Both doors are C19, but re-using restored ironwork with hatched surface and foliated ends, c.1200.

The font is octagonal, with a panelled bowl with quatrefoils in circles, enclosing blank shields, panelled and traceried stem and moulded base, late C14.

There are fragments and quarries of late C14 glass in the S window of the chancel, RCHM 1.