Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037947
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037947
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Draycott in the Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98103 40231
Details
SJ 94 SE DRAYCOTT-IN-THE-MOORS C.P. CHURCH LANE
5/179 Church of St. Margaret
3.1.67 GV II*
Parish church. Late C13 altered possibly C16 and largely refaced circa 1848, possibly, it is said, by Pugin. Coursed, dressed and squared red sandstone; tiled roofs to chancel and north chapel; nave roof invisible behind fretted parapet. West tower, nave and aisles, south porch, chancel, north chapel. Tower: C13 base to C16 superstructure; short and broad of approximately 3 stages, stepped-in to centre; diagonal buttresses of seven stages, crenellated parapet on raised string with gargoyles to centres of north and south sides. Deep-reveal, Tudor arched, two-light bell chamber openings, small lancets to centre stage and pointed Y-tracery window to south (no west window or door). Nave and aisles in one unit with low pitched roof: 3 bays divided by 2 stage buttresses; all but the faces of the north wall appear to be late C19; large pointed, labelled windows of 3 lights and curvilinear tracery; gabled porch to south-west; diagonal buttresses at angles and small lancets over labelled pointed entrances. Chancel of similar ridge height to nave but with steeply pitched roof and low eaves; late C19, of two bays divided by two stage buttresses, part obscured to south by gabled vestry and completely obscured to north by Draycott chapel; small, pointed two light window to south-east bay and pointed labelled east window with cinquefoils set in petal shapes to head. Draycott Chapel lower than chancel, late C13, of two bays, gabled to east, 3-stage angle buttresses; pointed windows of 1 and 2 lights to north and 3-light pointed (rounded at head) east window. Interior inaccessible at time of resurvey. B.O.E., p.117.
Listing NGR: SJ9810340231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 274983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 117
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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