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St Margret

St Margret

Toft Monks

Norfolk

Late C12/early C13 with C15 south porch and nave fenestration.

Architectural Features

Early C13 octagonal west tower with single lancet west window.

C15 knapped flint parapet with stepped castellation.

C15 nave windows, the westernmost window on each side very plain and probably C19 replacements.

C15 south porch, east and west walls rendered over and windows blocked in red brick.

C13 chancel much remodelled in C19

Interior: arch-braced porch roof with head carvings on wallpost ends.

Good C15 nave roof, much renewed: roll- moulded purlins and arch-braced principal rafters, carved bosses at intersections

Elaborately-moulded tie beam at west end, originally to support font cover.

C13 chancel arch with deeply-cut hood mould, engaged shafts and polygonal capitals.

C17 memorial slabs in chancel floor.

In the north-east corner of chancel, a good wall monument to John Bayspoole and to Rector John Lodington Piscina, much restored, in south-east corner.

Font C15, octagonal

four lions around stem, angel corbels below bowl defaced, figures around bowl.

C17 font cover.