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St Margaret

St Margaret

Quadring

Lincolnshire

C14, C15, restored 1862 by Charles Kirk of Sleaford when the chancel was largely rebuilt.

Architectural Features

3 stage C15 tower with stepped corner buttresses having cusped knopped gablettes.

Chamfered plinth, 3 string courses, battlemented parapet with fleuron frieze and gargoyles.

The north aisle has a 3 light C15 window with cusped ogee heads to the lights and panel tracery in the west and east ends, with 3 matching windows on the north side, and a continuously moulded and pointed doorway.

In the south side a continuously moulded blocked C14 doorway with one label stop and a 4 light segmental headed window with cusped ogee head and brattished transom.

In the east wall of the south aisle a wide 3 light late C14 window with 4 centred arched head, ogee heads to the lights, flowing tracery and brattished transom.

In the south wall are 3 three light C14 windows with reticulated tracery and a matching window in the west end.

C15 four bay nave arcades with continuously wave moulded outer order, and similar inner order on brattished capitals and half round shafts.

C15 tall tower arch with 2 continuously moulded outer orders and deep inner order on annular responds and half round shafts.

It is supported on wall posts, on carved stone corbels alternating with wall shafts to the main bays.

One tie beam is painted with the date of 1698 and the churchwardens' names, indicating the restoration date.

All C19 apart from the elegant C15 octagonal font with angels and inscribed panelled base and stem.

Monuments.

Beneath this a ledger slab depicting a priest, Richard Peresone d. 1472.