St Margaret

Lowestoft

Suffolk

LOWESTOFT TM59SW CHURCH ROAD 914-1/3/1 (North side) 13/12/49 Church of St Margaret (Formerly Listed as: ST MARGARET'S ROAD (North side) Church of St Margaret) I Parish church.

C14 C15 C16 C17 STAINED GLASS BRASS CARVINGS FONT MONUMENT ANGELS FIGURES

Architectural Features

C14

West tower early C14

C15

nave, aisles and chancel late C15, south aisle re-built 1870 by JL Clemence, restored 1899 by Bodley.

ANGELS

Continuous crested tie beam roof with false hammerbeams decorated with gilded angels bearing inscriptions, all restored 1899.

C15 FONT

Octagonal C15 font with standing figures in cusped niches in the stem.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2108298

FIGURES

Each bowl panel has figures of 2 standing saints.

Figures decorate each facet. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2108298

FONT

Font cover 1940.

BRASS

Brasses of a man and wife in south aisle, c1540, civilian dress.

C16 BRASS

2 skeleton brasses also in south aisle, early C16.

CARVINGS

Ogeed piscina with square hood and carved spandrels.

C17 MONUMENT

In south-east chapel is a wall monument to Captain Utber, commander of the frigate Guernsey in 1665 when he was killed while engaging the Dutch and Danish fleets off Norway.

STAINED GLASS

East window glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, 1891.