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St Margaret

Abbotsley

Cambridgeshire

Mainly C14 parish church of west tower, nave and north and south aisles.

Architectural Features

The C14 tomb recess in the south aisle is note- worthy.

Late C14 or perhaps C15 west tower of pebblestone with some sandstone and Barnack.

There are beast gargoyles to the centre of the main cornice.

Surmounting and at each corner of the parapet is a figure of a king, the two at the south east and south west corners are C16, and those at north east and north west are C19 or C20 restorations.

C15 west window of three lights with vertical tracery.

Each side of late C14 clerestorey has five windows of two trefoil lights in square head.

C14 south aisle with four C20 windows of Wheldon stone, each of two lights with flowing tracery and two centred arch.

C14 south doorway of two chamfered orders.

The C19 or C20 nave roof rests on C15 corbels, some carved.

There is a fine C14 tomb recess in the south, aisle of the church.

Moulded and cinquefoiled ogee head, carved with tendrils and foliate ornament and flanked by buttresses surmounded by crocketed pinnacles carved with paterae.

C13 font.

The roof of the north aisle retains some C15 moulded tie beams and in the east wall, two C15 brackets carved with angels.

The C16 oak screen under the chancel arch was originally under the tower arch.