Church of St Margaret of Antioch
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175479
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175479
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
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 OF ANTIOCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bygrave
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26603 36134
Details
TL 23 NE BYGRAVE BYGRAVE
4/78 Church of 27.5.68 St. Margaret of Antioch
- II*
Parish Church. Small building with C12 nave and S door. C14 chancel. Most windows C15. Clunch walls with brick and flint rubble, plastered. Roman tiles to NE and SE nave quoins. Slate roofs. W gable end has semi-octagonal stair turret with timber bell cage. Clunch quoins. Chamfered plinth. 2-light square headed cinquefoiled window. Similar windows to nave and chancel N and S walls. C17 blocked N door with key and impost blocks. S door is C12: single attached shafts with scalloped capitals. Roll-moulded arch. Porch is probably C19. Chancel has late C15 E window: 3 cinquefoiled lights with 6 stepped trefoiled lights above. C14 door to N chancel wal. S wall of choir with 3-light depressed arch window. Interior. C19 roofs to nave arid choir. Late C14 chancel arch with attached round shafts. C14 piscina. The chancel screen is C15: 5 ogee-headed arches in open traceried upper part, loft and canopy missing. C17 royal crest. C15 poppy-headed chancel stalls. Mid C17 altar rails. C17 pulpit with re-used C15 panels. Most important feature: C15 font at W end. Octagonal, the panels with carved instruments of the Passion, base with angels bearing crests. W and N chancel walls have fragments of C14 paintings. (RCHM, 1910; Pevsner(1977)).
Listing NGR: TL2660336134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162209
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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