Description

TF 92 SW STANFIELD CHURCH LANE

3/50 Church of
30.5.60 St. Margaret.

- I

Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar dressings and slate
roofs. West tower, aisleless nave with south porch and chancel. Early C14
west tower with one pair of diagonal buttresses. 2-light cusped Y-traceried
west window and 2-light plain Y-traceried bell-openings. C14 porch consisting
of arched entrance with dying moulding and carved label stops and kneeler
finials of mutilated kneeling figures. C14 nave doorways. 6 late
Perpendicular, flat-headed, 3-light panel-traceried nave windows with
straight hood moulds displaying finely carved stops. C13 chancel with 3
remodelled lancets to north, one 3-light C19 east window in Decorated style
and 2 original lancets with one 2-light Y-traceried window to south. These
south windows have hood moulds. C14 chancel arch of 2 plain-chamfered orders
on polygonal responds with bell capitals. Chancel windows with nook shafts
and deeply moulded scoinson arches. Double piscina with trefoil arches. C17
communion rail with shaped board balusters and patterned rails. C15 5-bay
chancel screen with tracery and spandrel carvings. 2-deck pulpit with an
elaborately carved C17 polygonal box, an C18 tester and a later clerk's
desk. 19 late medieval poppy-head bench ends with animal arm rests. Plain
octagonal font with a Jacobean cover on turned balusters. Cock's-head
hinges to-opening sides and simple scrolls above supporting a ball finial.
Fragments of medieval glass.

Listing NGR: TF9396120762

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534633

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)