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St Margaret

Bowers Gifford

Essex

717/7/52 CHURCH ROAD 04-JUL-55 BOWERS GIFFORD Church of St Margaret II* Church.

Architectural Features

Mid C14, bell stage added early C16, main restoration 1910.

Early C16 timber frame for steeple inserted within existing fabric.

Plain octagonal font, moulded under the bowl.

C17 timber pyramid font cover.

Brass to Sir John Giffard, possibly 1348.

Full-sized figure in military dress (head and lower part of right leg lost), with uncrossed legs and bearing a shield with 6 fleurs-de-lys (north-east chancel floor).

Hexagonal pulpit from Harrow School chapel, presented here in 1924, probably made in 1857.

Gilded wooden eagle lectern.

Wall monument to Frederick Harwood, died 1836: square plaster panel depicting Virgin and Child (nave south wall).

14 early C19 plaster Stations of the Cross, with 3-dimensional figures.