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St Margaret

St Margaret

Rottingdean

East Sussex

Norman nave, tower and chancel of C1200, south aisle of 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who carried out a restoration of the church as a whole at that date

Architectural Features

Random flint with stone dressings, roof of tiles

one plain lancet to right of the entrance, and one lower lancet to the left with a trefoiled head, probably of C14 date

a C17 stone bracket survives between this window and the entrance

The south aisle has paired trefoiled lancets with common hoodmoulds to east and south sides and a single trefoiled lancet to the west, the latter of C14 date and resited by Scott

between the second pair and the single lancet, a low opening, now blocked, with decayed dressed stonework, possibly deriving from the earlier Saxon church.

the west end flanked by 2 massive buttresses with one offset, of late C14 date, and an additional angle buttress to the south, of early C19 date

features of earlier interest are the priest's doorway in the chancel with C13 mouldings

Remains of Norman font kept at the west end of the south aisle, by a font of similar design dating from 1910.

Behind the pulpit, a memorial tablet surmounted by a bust of Thomas Redman Hooker.

Stained glass by Morris and Company: east window 1893

all the designs are by Burne-Jones except for the figures of Christ bearing the Cross and St George and the Dragon in the Rowden window, which are by JH Dearle.