Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288635
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288635
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southolt
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19341 68870
Details
SOUTHOLT TM 16 NE 4/53 Church of St Margaret 29.7.55 - II* Redundant parish church. C15 nave and porch, late C18 chancel (a brick at east end scratch-dated 1771). Restored 1907 when west end of nave was rebuilt. Nave, chancel, south porch, north vestry. Medieval work faced in knapped flint with stone admixture; stone dressings. Red brick chancel with a chequerwork in dark headers. Slated roofs to nave and porch, plaintiles to chancel. The nave side windows are in Perpendicular style, the 2 at the west end entirely renewed, the others much restored. Moulded north and south doorways, both with original doors. Rebuilt west end has gabled bell turret with a single bell. Porch facade has all-over chequer flushwork; the gable, with a canopied niche, has been rebuilt. Moulded entrance arch with hoodmould on mutilated stops. Small chancel, the 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. Interior. Original nave roof with scissor-braced coupled rafters, ashlar pieces and a moulded cornice; a boarded-in section at the east end is the remains of a canopy of honour. The west end of the roof was renewed in 1907. Chancel arch on corbel heads of a king and bishop, probably positioned here in C19. In north east nave is the blocked 4-centre arched entrance to the rood loft stair. C15 octagonal font, the bowl panels carved with the signs of the Evangelists and shield-bearing angels; lions and woodwoses against the stem. The carving has been partially renewed. The pulpit, chancel stalls and remaining nave benches date from later C19; other furnishings now removed. At west end of nave, C19 framed copies of the Commandments, Lord's Prayer and Creed. On north chancel wall, a simple tablet to Dame Ann Henniker (1792). 4 ledger slabs in sanctuary floor; matrix of brass in nave floor.
Listing NGR: TM1934168870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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