Church of St Margaret
Church of St Margaret, Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196517
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- 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:
- 1196517
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- 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:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85640 48062
Details
SJ84NE
644-1/4/66
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
WOLSTANTON
CHURCH LANE (East side)
Church of St Margaret
21/10/49
II*
Church. Mainly of 1860, but incorporating substantial amounts of medieval building, including north tower and spire. Largely by Ward and Son, with chancel by Salvin. Sandstone rubble, coursed and squared, tiled roof with scalloped bands and ridge cresting. North tower, nave, two aisles, chancel. Decorated style. Squat three-stage tower with parapet and pinnacles and recessed octagonal spire. Decorated lights with deep splays in lower stage and to bell-chamber. Inserted Victorian doorway in east wall. North vestry to chancel, and three-light Decorated east window with fluid tracery. Small window in east wall of nave above chancel roofline. Two-light Decorated aisle windows, heavy buttresses, corbel table. Heavy south porch with angle buttresses and ball-flower decoration to moulded archway. Foliate hood mould with cresting.
INTERIOR: nave arcades of four bays with octagonal shafts. Hammer beam roof, wood traceried chancel screen. Late C19 stained glass, and tiled floors. Series of monuments to members of Sneyd family in chancel: wall tablet to John Sneyd, 1710, pedimented with urn and flanking cherubs; Sir William and Anne Sneyd, 1571, an alabaster chest tomb with recumbant effigies and eleven children represented in high relief round the base. Re-cut stone canopy with strapwork and arms; two other tablets to Radulph and William Sneyd (1729).
Listing NGR: SJ8564048062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
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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