Description

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TQ88NW
840/1/10012

SOUTHEND ON SEA
LIME AVENUE
Church of St Margaret of Antioch

II

Church. Early Italian Romanesque style with basilica plan. Concrete, roughcast rendered, brick bands and dressings. Clay pantiles to nave, aisle roofs leaded. Five-bay nave, two-bay apsed chancel, south chapel, north and south aisles, small north chapel, vestries to south. The detached Campanile to south west is separately reconunended- East end, high single-light round headed window with square leaded lights to north chapel, apse with three similar windows, south chapel with Venctian window with leaded lights as before. South aisle has a range of four round-headed windows with tile arches, above projecting single storey vestries flanking a central door. Clerestorey with range of four lunette windows. West end symmetrical with a central entrance, a brick arch over double doors with statue of patron saint over. Oculus above, with tile surround. Aisles slightly recessed each with round arched window ffiazed as before and a small round headed window with square headed light. North aisle with range of four round arched windows detailed as before and a central door under round arch.

INTERIOR: Open kingpost roof of 13 bays, painted roof boarding, Tuscan nave colonnades and moulded comice. West organ gallery with later glazed screen below. Font base of black marble and elaborate wooden cover. Chancel slightly re-ordered with central altar of 1986, but circular floor in keeping with original conception. [Pevsner, Buildings of England: Essex, 2nd Edn; p.353.1]

Listing NGR: TQ8340886641

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558715

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)