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St Margaret

Margaretting

Essex

A flint and stone rubble church of Norman origin but almost completely rebuilt in the early-mid C15, with a timber-framed, weatherboarded and shingled west tower with a broach spire.

Architectural Features

The chancel was altered in the C16 and the church was much altered by restoration in 1877.

A portion of the north wall to the east of the north porch is of Norman work and incorporates Roman tiles.

The most important features of the church are the C15 west tower and north porch.

The king post roof to the nave is C15

the chancel roof is C16.

The chancel has a Tree of Jesse window which is made up of C15 Flemish glass, fragments from earlier windows built into its present position in the restoration of 1877.

Fittings include a C15 octagonal font carved with emblems and a grotesque head, a carved alabaster wall monument to John Tanfield of Coptfold Hall , A C16 brass of Robert Sedge, his wife and children, of "Shenfield" (now known as "Killigrews") and the lower part of a C15 rood screen.