Description

TL 23 NE BYGRAVE BYGRAVE

4/78 Church of
27.5.68 St. Margaret of
Antioch

- II*

Parish Church. Small building with C12 nave and S door. C14 chancel.
Most windows C15. Clunch walls with brick and flint rubble, plastered.
Roman tiles to NE and SE nave quoins. Slate roofs. W gable end has
semi-octagonal stair turret with timber bell cage. Clunch quoins.
Chamfered plinth. 2-light square headed cinquefoiled window. Similar
windows to nave and chancel N and S walls. C17 blocked N door with key
and impost blocks. S door is C12: single attached shafts with scalloped
capitals. Roll-moulded arch. Porch is probably C19. Chancel has late C15
E window: 3 cinquefoiled lights with 6 stepped trefoiled lights above.
C14 door to N chancel wal. S wall of choir with 3-light depressed arch
window. Interior. C19 roofs to nave arid choir. Late C14 chancel arch
with attached round shafts. C14 piscina. The chancel screen is C15: 5
ogee-headed arches in open traceried upper part, loft and canopy
missing. C17 royal crest. C15 poppy-headed chancel stalls. Mid C17 altar
rails. C17 pulpit with re-used C15 panels. Most important feature: C15
font at W end. Octagonal, the panels with carved instruments of the
Passion, base with angels bearing crests. W and N chancel walls have
fragments of C14 paintings. (RCHM, 1910; Pevsner(1977)).

Listing NGR: TL2660336134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Margaret of Antioch at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17554968

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