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St Margaret

St Margaret

Newton

Cambridgeshire

TL 4349 NEWTON TOWN STREET (South East Side) 22/183 Church of St. Margaret 31.8.62 II* Parish church substantially of C13 with C14 additions and alterations.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower.

West tower, C15.

Half octagonal, C15, staircase turret on south side.

Nave, C13 origin with C15 clerestory of two windows, restored, to each side.

The south chapel of similar date, but again restored in C14 and later, and having a C14 window of clunch of two cinquefoil lights with reticulated tracery in two-centred head.

Part of the arch of a C14 window is visible in the south wall of the chancel.

The nave is C13 but has an arcade on north side of C14.

At the responds, the arches spring from corbels carved with masks.

There is a C13 lancet window in the west wall of the south chapel and a colonette also C13 to a piscina in the south east corner.

The wall painting of scrolled foliage is similar to that of the C13 in the side altar to St. Thomas Beckett at the Church of St. Edmund, Hauxton (q.v.).

The C14 chancel was almost entirely rebuilt in C19.

Font, C13.

Monuments chancel, floor slabs.

Robert Swann 1727 and Elizabeth, his wife, 1680

wall monuments in chancel.

War memorial of copper, made by members of Newton Metalwork School founded by Hurrell family in C19.

Wall monuments mostly to members of Pemberton family and all of C19.

William Ward, 1900 brass.

443 R. Gunnis: Dictionary OF British Sculptors 1660-1851 R.C.H.M: record card