Description

ROCHESTER ST MARGARET'S STREET TQ 7648 SW 9/239 Parish Church of St Margaret of 24.10.50 Antioch GV II* Parish Church. W tower of c.1458-65; nave and chancel with N and S aisles (with galleries) 1823-4 by Sydney Smirke; sanctuary with side vestries, 1839-40 by Richard Hussey; 'Decorated' style E window inserted 1872. W tower, random rubble ragstone with some flint dressings, the rest presumably of brick, stuccoed throughout; Welsh slate roof. Tower, 3 stages with NE polygonal stair turret; battlements; diagonal buttresses with flint panels and 3 set-offs. Double belfry openings; single trefoil-headed lancet to each face of middle stage. Perpendicular 3-light W window over moulded doorway with label. Nave (includes chancel), 5 bays, 2 tiers of windows all under elliptically-headed arches between broad pilasters. Deeply overhanging eaves and verges, the latter in the form of pediments. Sanctuary, lower with flanking offices, the E end with pedimented verges; 3 light 'Decorated' E window with original recessed round-headed window to offices. Interior: galleries to N and S, wooden columns with capitals, Doric below, Ionic above; coffered panel ceiling; round-headed chancel arch. Medieval tower arch survives. Monuments. Brass (a demi-figure), to Thomas Cod, died 1465 in Victorian frame; good rural monument to Thomas Manley Esq, died 1690 in a foliage plaster frame with heraldic device; several other good quality C18 and C19 rural monuments. Complete 1870s tiling to chancel and sanctuary. Church guide: St Margaret's, Rochester, a Brief History (no author, not dated).

Listing NGR: TQ7402468065

External Links

• St. Margaret's Church at Wikipedia
• St. Margaret's Church official website
• Wikidata Q7589859

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback