St Margaret

stone slate roof to chancel, with coped east gable, and plain clay tiles to nave, with stepped coped gables with finials, behind plain parapets.

Chancel mostly C13, with corner and bay buttresses with offsets, corbel table eaves course: east window a C19 4-centre arched 5-light with reticulated tracery

north and south sides have 2-light later C13 traceried windows, with plain stopped labels, with a pointed arched doorway with arched label under flat stone hood to west bay south side: some C17 and C18 memorial slabs against north wall.

single 3- light C15 window in hollowed recess on north side, which cuts across a former buttress, and a blocked pointed arched doorway opposite south porch

west window 5-light to match: on south side the east bay has a large C15 3-light window in hollowed recess with square-stop label, then a smaller C14 3-light window under headstop label, the south porch, and a tall slim 2-light flat-headed traceried window under square label, probably C14.

moulded pointed C14 arch with square-stop label

inside a ribbed pointed vault of 2 bays, with side shafts and bosses, C14 work re-roofed in 1534

Tower C13, with top stage

turret stair of 1516-17, in 3 stages: corner buttresses to north face, also octagonal stair turret this side

plain parapet with gargoyles to string: door with steps up on north-west angle of stair turret.

Inside, the chancel mostly C13 in character, but with early C20 king-post roof

good C13 double piscina

wide chancel arch of early C14, with possibly contemporary low stone walls and small stoup on nave north side.

Nave has C19 arch-braced roof, no rere-arches to windows except to that part-hidden behind pulpit, obscured by tower

Fittings include C17 altar table, a C17 octagonal panelled timber pulpit with matching backboard and tester

C15 octagonal font with panelled bowl and underbowl, plain shaft

a few medieval encaustic floor tiles in step to sanctuary

also a number of bench ends, made 1511-12, three of which have hinged stools with stays, possibly for servants.

Tower has a C16 timber panel roof with moulded beams.

Memorials include several brasses set into chancel floor, one to John Heth, priest, died 1464,

...in the chancel of St Margaret's Church, Tintinhull.

© Bill Harrison

others C17

a Ham and Keinton stone memorial in north wall of sanctuary, Corinthian columns and full entablature with cartouche of arms to Thomas Napper, died 1692

Dating from 1692. All the Napper (or Naper) arms are a variant on 'argent a saltire engrailed between four roses gules', so the background colour of sable (black) is evidently wrong, as well as being "bad heraldry" (colour on colour).

© Bill Harrison

on south chancel wall a black and white marble monument to John Napper died 1778

The Nappers lived at the Parsonage, now Tintinhull Court (q.v) from 1546, and also at Tintinhull House (q.v) until the end of C18.

Stained glass by F.C. Eden in east window.