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St Margaret

St Margaret

Hales

Norfolk

Fabric of C12 remains almost intact with some C13

Architectural Features

C14 fenestration.

Round west tower, possibly C11, with C14 bell-openings.

Fine C12 south door with two orders of shafts with cushion capitals, arch with zigzag, billet and roll mouldings.

Arcading pierced by C13 lancets.

Very fine and ornate north doorway, C12 with two orders of shafts, their capitals decorated with stars and volutes, hood mould with wheel motif and arches with zigzag, bobbin and dentil decoration.

Base of C15 screen with some colour remaining.

Figure niches with pedestals flanking east window.

Two memorial slabs in chancel floor, to Peter Lawes and a C17 slab to Mary Lawes.

C15 octagonal font with four lions around the stem, the bowl supported on angel-corbels

alternating roses and angels bearing shields in panels of bowl.

C17 font cover of open ogee crown type with turned centre post and acorn finials.

Wall paintings: C14 figure of St. James the Great with trail design above, in jamb of south-east nave window, fragment of St. Christopher on south wall of nave probably C15

foliage frieze above east window, C14.