Church of St Margaret of Antioch

Details

TL 50 SW STANFORD STANFORD RIVERS 4/247 Church of St Margaret of 20/2/67 Antioch (formerly listed as Church of St Margaret)

GV II *

Parish Church. C12 nave. C14 chancel with C16 brick clerestorey C15 timber framed bell turret, weatherboarded with lead spire. C15 north porch (now blocked) and similar south porch (converted into a vestry early C19). West entrance porch and gallery beneath bell turret c1815. Flint rubble faced with cement. Red plain tiled roofs. Chancel 3 light east windows cusped with tracery over in a 2 centre head with label. Clerestorey with 3 windows to north and south walls (early C16) of one light with rounded head and a square moulded label. Below these in north wall is a C14 two trefoiled ogee light with tracery over in a 2 centred head with a moulded label. South wall with two similar windows and a late C15/early C16 3 light with cinquefoils in a segmental pointed head. There is a C14 blocked doorway with a 2 centred head between the two light windows. There is evidence of a destroyed chancel arch. The Nave. The north wall has two C14 windows of three trefoiled lights in a two centred head and a C12 single light with a round head. The North Porch with modern inner door with segmental pointed arch over and plank and muntin outer door with chamfered jambs and 4 centred arch with trefoiled spandrels and narrow panels above the arch. Flanking it on either side of the uprights are narrow panels with trefoiled and traceried heads. Above tie beam the upright has a sunk panel with a trefoiled ogee head. South porch: is rendered with a C19 timber 3 light Gothic window. Modern doorway with semi-circular rear arch of the C12 doorway. There are 3 windows similar to those of north wall in the south wall. Chancel roof with moulded and crenellated wall plates of 7 cants probably C16. Nave roof of 3 bays with chamfered wall plates, cross-quadrate crown posts and plain 4 arm arched braces. West wall: with C19/20 door and 3 light window above which is a C12 single light round headed window. C19 timber porch with flat canopy. 6 panel double doors. C14 bell turret is a rectangular timber construction standing on two portal frames with elaborate intersecting arch- braces. Of medieval timber throughout, including the spire. (C. A. Hewett Church Carpentry, 1974). Fittings: communion rails C17 with turned balusters and posts. Font: of Barnack Stone, octagonal bowl with two pointed panels on each face, round stem with 8 attached shafts, early C13. Pulpit, incorporating 6 C16 panels. In gallery front. 9 traceried heads from former screen. C16/17 panelling in chancel at back of seating. C15 benches in nave with moulded rails, ends with moulded buttresses. Also box pews with wall panels. Brasses: N wall of chancel to Thos Grene, bayle of this town 1535 on S wall Katherine, wife of Richard Mulcaster, 1609. Nave. S wall Anne (Skelton), wife of William Napper 1584, kneeling woman with six sons, all set in a stone tablet with flanking pilasters and a round arch. Chest: heavy plain oak with later locks. Floor slabs C17 to various members of the Petre family. RCHM 1

Listing NGR: TL5341600881

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Sources

Books and journals
Hewett, C A, Church Carpentry A Study Based on Essex Examples, (1982)

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