CHURCH OF ST MARGARET

CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252132
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252132
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, MAIN STREET

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, MAIN STREET

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County:: Lincolnshire
District:: East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Langton
National Grid Reference:: TF 23724 68990

Details

TF 26 NW LANGTON MAIN STREET (north side)

3/121 Church of St. Margaret 14.9.66 II

Parish church. Mid C13, C15, 1750, heavily restored and partly rebuilt by W. Scorer in 1890-1. Green sandstone rubble blocks, limestone ashlar dressings, some red brick. Plain tile roofs with overhanging eaves and bell supported by timber frame in west gable. Nave and chancel in one. West front with pointed, ashlar dressed doorway with moulded jambs, hood mould and plank door. North side of nave with outline of 2 blocked, pointed bays of C13 north arcade. Tiny lancet in east gable of nave. North side of chancel, plain. East end with pointed C19 window with 3 cusped, ogee headed lights and tracery. South side with 2 pointed C19 windows, each with 2 cusped, ogee headed lights and mouchette. Interior 2 bay north arcade of c,1250 partially exposed, with double chamfered, pointed heads. Polygonal pier with polygonal moulded capital and similar respond capitals, the lower sections of which are covered by painted panelled dado that runs round entire nave. C13 chancel arch with pointed, double chamfered head that dies into rectangular jambs. South wall of chancel with pointed, chamfered piscina. C16 chair with barley sugar columns flanking tall back and panel carved with figure of St. Margaret. Richly carved pulpit, chest and lectern by J. Conway Walter, Rector, in 1891, in late C16 style. Font consisting of several medieval fragments; the base, a keystone of a late C12 rib vault from Kirkstead Abbey; the bowl, of Barnack stone with bulbous corners, discovered in St. Lawrence Street, Horncastle. Terracotta chrismatory set in pointed chamfered opening for stoup in west wall, of medieval Moorish origins, and discovered in Moat of Poolham Hall. C19 Baptismal shell with roundels containing scenes from the Life of Christ, brought back from Bethlehem in 1860. Fragmentary, free standing stoup on south window ledge of nave with roll mouldings on 3 corners. 2 large, weathered tomb stones re-set on either side of west doorway.

Listing NGR: TF2372468990

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Legacy System number:: 435068
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.