PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET

PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1141258
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1141258
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Margaret Roding
National Grid Reference:: TL 59897 11997

Details

TL 51 SE MARGARET RODING

5/43 Parish Church of St. Margaret 20.2.67

GV II

Nave late C12, chancel late C14, restored C19. Vestry added and bell-cote added or rebuilt C19. Flint-rubble (cement rendered on E wall) with dressings of limestone and clunch roofed with slate. The chancel, with diagonal buttresses, has a moulded internal string course. The three-light E window is C19 except the internal splays, rear-arch and label, which are late C14 or early Cl5. There are no windows in the N wall. In the S wall are 2 late C14 windows each of 3 trefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head, both partly restored, with moulded jambs and two-centred arch, with the internal string-course mitred round the three-sided rear-arch. The C14 or C15 chancel-arch has chamfered responds and a four-centred arch of 2 chamfered orders. The lower parts of the responds were said by the RCHM to be of C12 stones re-set. The nave has in the N wall 3 C12 windows each of a single round-headed light. The westernmost has early wrought ironwork and leaded plain glass. Between the 2 western windows is the C12 N doorway with a semi-circular arch and jambs enriched with a vertical line of diaper ornament; the tympanum is C19. In the S wall are 3 C12 windows, the easternmost of 2 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head, partly restored. The 2 western windows are round-headed, with 3 circular ornaments cut in the head of each. Between these windows is the C12 S doorway of 3 orders; the 2 outer orders have shafts with scalloped capitals, chamfered abaci and moulded bases to the inner shafts; the outer shaft has zigzag fluting and on the face of the wall adjoining are squares of diaper ornament; the inner order has 2 shafts worked on the inner face; the 2 middle orders of the semi-circular arch have chevron ornament and the outer order has billets and diaper-work; the tympanum with a segmental soffit has lozenge-shaped panels of diaper-work. The lower quoin-stones of the S wall have diaper ornament partly restored. In the W wall is a window of 2 round-headed lights which the RCHM considered to be C18, but Persner says may be C17, and above it a C12 round-headed window, rebated externally.

The roof of the chancel is C19, scissor-braced and probably reproducing the original form, incorporating original ashlar-pieces on the S side. There are 2 moulded tiebeams, late C14, and moulded wallplates finished with carved floral basses against the E wall, late C14. The nave roof is C19, incorporating ashlar- pieces most of which are original, 2 straight tiebeams with plain square crownposts and curved axial braces, hollow-chamfered and step-stopped wallplates, all C15.

On the E wall of the chancel is a decayed stone corbel of a man's head; in the SE corner a piscina with two-centred head and moulded label with finial, and octfoiled drain, late C14. In the N wall a recess with low ogee arch, foiled near springing, moulded label with crockets, finial and stop of a woman's head (much decayed), late C14, possibly for a monument to the builder of the chancel. In the recess of the SE window, sedilia with 3 bays of obtuse trefoiled arcading on 2 head corbels, the S one reported by the RCHM to be of a bishop but now barely identifiable, late C14.

Both doors are C19, but re-using restored ironwork with hatched surface and foliated ends, c.1200. The font is octagonal, with a panelled bowl with quatrefoils in circles, enclosing blank shields, panelled and traceried stem and moulded base, late C14. There are fragments and quarries of late C14 glass in the S window of the chancel, RCHM 1.

Listing NGR: TL5989711997

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.