Description

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TR 1457 NE 4/199
944
3.12.49

ST MARGARET'S STREET
(North-west side)
Church of St Margaret

II*

Former parish church. C12 in origin but rebuilt in C15 and heavily restored
C1850 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Faced with knapped flint with stone dressings
and tiled roof. 3 bay nave with chancel reduced to a polygonal apse by Scott
for road widening, north and south aisles and south west tower. South west
tower has C15 lower stage with clasping buttresses and octagonal turret added
by Scott, and squarish bell stage with lancets and crenellated parapet recon-
structed after bomb damage in 1942. Nave is C15 restored with west gable
end with Decorated style traceried window by Scott and west doorway which
is a Scott copy of the Mid C12 doorway with shafts and billet on the hood
mould. Aisles are also C15 altered by Scott and have Decorated style windows.
Continuous plinth moulding. Interior has 3 bay nave with 4 bay crownpost roof.
Aisles have reconstructed octagonal piers and a double wave on the arches.
Early C14 piscina in south wall of North chapel. Good monuments including
Sir George Newman (d 1627), a large wall monument at east end of south aisle
with effigy in legal robes reclining on one side set in architectural surround
including columns, open pediment and scrolls flanking the inscription. Joseph
Colfe (d 1620) an architectural wall tablet and John Watson (d 1642) in the
South wall, a half-figure facing the front in architectural niche wearing
a ruff and resting his left hand on a skull. There are a series of good C17
and C18 wall plaques including one to John Barret and Paul Lukin (d 1709)
a big architectural tablet with mourning putti signed by John Friend. Brass
to John Wynter, twice Mayor of Canterbury (d 1470) in civilian dress. The church
was built on the remains of Roman public baths. At first belonging to St
Augustine's Abbey the church was given to the Poor Priests Hospital in 1271
in whose hands it remained until 1575. (See BOE "East Kent" P 232 and Canterbury
Archaeological Trust pamphlet by Tim Tatton Brown "April 1986)

Listing NGR: TR1488757741

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557165

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