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St Margaret

St Margaret

Knook

Wiltshire

Built in the late C11, with C14, C17 and mid-C18 alterations and additions. Restored 1874-76 by William Butterfield

Architectural Features

A blocked doorway with a tympanum with zoomorphic carving, and attached shafts and capitals, all believed to be C11.

The chancel arch has C11 carved corbels supporting a wooden arch-braced beam with pierced quatrefoils, by Butterfield

brass on the south wall, to John Morgan and his wife, is dated 1592

Set into the floor at the extreme west end is a worn C14 funerary slab

There is one monument at the west end, a black and white marble tablet in memory of Brouncker-Thring, buried 1787, and his family, by Harris of Bath