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St Margaret

St Margaret

Cley next the Sea

Norfolk

TG 0443 CLEY NEXT THE SEA CLEY GREEN, NEWGATE 9/18 Church of St. Margaret 4.10.60 I Parish church, C14

Architectural Features

Flint with stone dressings, grey corrugated tiles.

South facade: eleven C14 clerestorey windows of cusped 'Y' tracery alternating with larged cusped cinquefoils, a single lancet at either end, large figure pinacles to gable bases, large crosses to gable apices, that to west renewed.

Mid C15 south aisle with flush work parapet, 4 4-light windows having panel tracery and octofoil at apex under pointed segmental heads, similar window to west, coped angle buttress to south-west with trefoil headed niches, buttresses between windows of facade.

Perpendicular porch arch with continuous order of shields and roses, the shields with arms of benefactors, 2nd order arch with flower ornament to front and rear above polygonal shafts, blank tracery in spandrels with shields showing enblems of Holy Trinity and the Passion, benefactors arms outside including those of Anne of Bohemia, died 1394.

2 3-light openings under pointed segmental heads and having stepped embattled transoms, figure heads to hood moulds

Ogee arch to C14 doorway with lion head stops, inner trefoil headed order, each foil cusped.

Thick marble threshold with indents for brass shields and scrolls, not a reused tomb.

C14 west doorway having deep mouldings, outer order with large roses having angel head at apex, round shafts, inner order with cusped cinquefoil head, crocketted hood mould with crowned figure stops.

C14 door with Decorated foliage to strap hinges

C15 roofs to aisles having fret- work spandrels to arch braces.

C14 6 bay north and south arcades having octagonal piers and moulded arches

large varied figure corbels within spandrels to south showing traces of colour, panelled corbels to north spandrels with vaulted crocketted canopies above.

Figure and foliage central stops to arch mouldings to aisles.

Floor partly paved with C15 12" marble slabs.

Wide cinquefoil headed piscina with hollow chamfered arch, C17 altar with strapwork frieze, top renewed and enlarged

6 stalls of 1530s with misericords showing merchants mark (John Greneway) with JG impaling the Grocers' company.

Pulpit dated 1611 having two slender turned columns to angles between panels having renaissance arches.

24 C15 benchends with animals and grotesques, many poppy heads incorporating figures.

Panel 2: Confirmation on the left.
Panel 3: Penance; Faldstool used by a bishop officiating out of his cathedral in the centre.

C15 octagonal seven sacrament font.

Panel 2: Confirmation on the left. Panel 3: Penance; Faldstool used by a bishop officiating out of his cathedral in the centre.

© Michael Garlick

Fragments of stained glass in north chancel, series of female saints in tracery panels in south aisle, c.1460.

C15 west gable cross now in south aisle.

North of font achievement board of Charles 1, altered for Queen Anne.

Large monumental brass 1512 to John Symonds and wife Agnes in shrouds, and separate named children

good group of 6 sons c.1460 - both south aisle

various C16 brass inscriptions and figures.