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St Margaret Of Antioch

Stanford Rivers

Essex

C12 nave.

Architectural Features

C14 chancel with C16 brick clerestorey C15 timber framed bell turret, weatherboarded with lead spire.

C15 north porch (now blocked) and similar south porch (converted into a vestry early C19).

Clerestorey with 3 windows to north and south walls (early C16) of one light with rounded head and a square moulded label.

Below these in north wall is a C14 two trefoiled ogee light with tracery over in a 2 centred head with a moulded label.

South wall with two similar windows and a late C15/early C16 3 light with cinquefoils in a segmental pointed head.

There is a C14 blocked doorway with a 2 centred head between the two light windows.

The north wall has two C14 windows of three trefoiled lights in a two centred head

a C12 single light with a round head.

Modern doorway with semi-circular rear arch of the C12 doorway.

Chancel roof with moulded and crenellated wall plates of 7 cants probably C16.

West wall: with C19/20 door and 3 light window above which is a C12 single light round headed window.

C14 bell turret is a rectangular timber construction standing on two portal frames with elaborate intersecting arch- braces.

Of medieval timber throughout, including the spire.

Fittings: communion rails C17 with turned balusters and posts.

Font: of Barnack Stone, octagonal bowl with two pointed panels on each face, round stem with 8 attached shafts, early C13.

Pulpit, incorporating 6 C16 panels.

C16/17 panelling in chancel at back of seating.

C15 benches in nave with moulded rails, ends with moulded buttresses.

Brasses: N wall of chancel to Thos Grene, bayle of this town 1535 on S wall Katherine, wife of Richard Mulcaster, 1609.

S wall Anne (Skelton), wife of William Napper 1584, kneeling woman with six sons, all set in a stone tablet with flanking pilasters and a round arch.

Floor slabs C17 to various members of the Petre family.