Church of St Margaret

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TL 4349 NEWTON TOWN STREET (South East Side)

22/183 Church of St. Margaret 31.8.62 II*

Parish church substantially of C13 with C14 additions and alterations. C15 west tower. Externally much restored in C19. Pebble, flint, clunch rubble, dressed clunch and limestone. Steeply pitched roof of slate. Except for part of the tower nearly all the church is rendered. Plan of west tower, nave with north aisle and porch, north and south chapels and chancel. West tower, C15. Three stages, embattled on two stage splayed plinth. Restored west window and west doorway. Three-stage set-back buttressing. Half octagonal, C15, staircase turret on south side. Clunch surrounds to single cinquefoil bell chamber openings. Nave, C13 origin with C15 clerestory of two windows, restored, to each side. The south chapel of similar date, but again restored in C14 and later, and having a C14 window of clunch of two cinquefoil lights with reticulated tracery in two-centred head. Part of the arch of a C14 window is visible in the south wall of the chancel. Interior: The tower arch has three continuous moulded orders in two centred arch. The nave is C13 but has an arcade on north side of C14. In two bays only. Two centred arches of two chamfered orders on octagonal columns with octagonal capitals. At the responds, the arches spring from corbels carved with masks. There is a similar double chamfered and two centred arch between the north aisle and north chapel. The arch from the nave to the north chapel is two centred and of two chamfered orders, the outer terminating in a broach stop. There is a holdwater base to the half octagonal responds. The arch to the south chapel is similar but has the broach stop to the outer chamfer. There is a C13 lancet window in the west wall of the south chapel and a colonette also C13 to a piscina in the south east corner. Part of a hollow moulded chamfered arch is visible in the east wall and possibly formed part of a reredlos to an altar. The wall painting of scrolled foliage is similar to that of the C13 in the side altar to St. Thomas Beckett at the Church of St. Edmund, Hauxton (q.v.). The C14 chancel was almost entirely rebuilt in C19. Font, C13. Stone. Square basin with chamfered corners with large scroll stops. On column with moulded capital and base and similar subsidiary columns at corners. Monuments chancel, floor slabs. Robert Swann 1727 and Elizabeth, his wife, 1680; wall monuments in chancel. John Stevenson, 1748 grey marble cartouche. Nave. War memorial of copper, made by members of Newton Metalwork School founded by Hurrell family in C19. Wall monuments mostly to members of Pemberton family and all of C19. Francis, 1809 and Mrs Anne, 1815, by Rossi. William, 1828 by the younger Westmacott. Christopher, 1850, by Physick. Christopher, 1870, by Noble. Mrs Montagu, 1871, by Boehm. William Ward, 1900 brass. Pevsner: Buildings of England p. 443 R. Gunnis: Dictionary OF British Sculptors 1660-1851 R.C.H.M: record card

Listing NGR: TL4353049159

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Sources

Books and journals
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 433

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