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St Margaret

St Margaret

King's Lynn

Norfolk

Benedictine Priory founded 1095, now a parish church.

Architectural Features

Rebuilt during C13, altered continuously since.

Exterior mostly C15.

3-stage south-west tower complete to ringing chamber by c1260: bundled buttresses, Norman interlace to lower stages gives way to trefoiled C13 arcading, then to 2-light ringing chamber windows, terminating in bar tracery of the C14 belfry stage.

North-west tower also Norman in lower courses but rebuilt 1453: indeterminate stage divisions, clasping buttresses, small 3-light Perpendicular windows.

5-bay nave aisles and clerestory added 1472-83, the north aisle by Roger Cony.

Short projecting transepts with hints of Norman work.

3-bay north chancel aisle 1394, 5-bay south aisle 1433.

Remainder of arcade of quatrefoil piers standing on Norman bases.

C14 screens between chancel

its aisles, C16 screen in north transept.

Mid C18 pulpit.

The 2 largest brasses in England.

One to Adam Walsoken and wife of 1349, both in civil dress.