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St. Maragret

St. Maragret

Braceborough

Lincolnshire

C14, C15, 1662 porch, C18 alterations, 1859 chancel rebuilt and church restored by Mr. Kirk of Sleaford.

Architectural Features

C14 2 stage tower with broach spire having single tier of lucarnes in principal directions.

In the north wall of the nave are 2 C15 3 light windows with panel tracery to the heads.

C19 facetted chancel with slate roof with 2 light windows in C13 style.

In the south wall of the nave are 3 further C15 windows and a contemporary 4 centred arched doorway.

Also a 3 light C14 reticulated window.

Gabled south porch, dated 1662 with double chamfered reset C14 arch.

The C15 inner door has 4 centred arched head with moulded surround, chamfered hood with lion stops.

The C15 continuously moulded double chamfered arch is 4 centred, to either side are matching single chamfered half arches, and in the side walls are further full height arched openings, also double chamfered.

In the north wall of the nave is a small C15 continuously moulded door and in the south wall a cusped ogee headed piscina.

The eastern part of the chancel has relief glazed tiles.

Stained glass by Kempe.

Possibly an Early English font bowl by St.Margaret's south porch - or possibly the lower part of a churchyard cross with broaches and a substantial socket for an octagonal shaft ?

Fittings are all C19 apart from the recut square C13 font, now with C17 chevrons, loops and lozenges.

Possibly an Early English font bowl by St.Margaret's south porch - or possibly the lower part of a churchyard cross with broaches and a substantial socket for an octagonal shaft ?

© Richard Croft

There is a larger similar panel behind the font.

In the inner porch above the south tower arch a painted panel of the Royal Arms of Charles II.

Monuments.

In the tower the C14 matrix of a brass to Thomas de Wasteneys.