Description

TF 48 SW
4/51
9.3.67

WITHERN WITH STAIN
CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Church of St Margaret

G.V.
II

Parish church, now closed. C15, 1812 rebuilding, 1875
restoration. Red brick, ashlar dressings, render and slate
roofs. Nave with bellcote, aisles, south porch, chancel, north
chapel and vestry. The west wall is featureless apart from small
4 centred arched light and 4 stepped buttresses. A gabled
ashlar bellcote to apex. To the north wall are 3 three light
windows with intersecting tracery. The rendered north chapel
has a semi-circular headed window on the north and in the east
wall a reset C15 window of 2 lights, and a similar window in the
north wall of the chancel, may be reused clerestory lights. The
east window is of 3 lights with C19 reticulated tracery. In the
south wall of the chancel is a window of 2 lights and a further
2 light window in the vestry. The south nave windows match those
to the north. The later C19 gabled porch has a single chamfered
outer arch, with C15 reveals and reset human head label stops.
The inner doorway is 4 centred and single chamfered, and is
recut. Interior. 3 bay nave arcades. C15, octagonal piers,
double chamfered arches. Plain pointed chancel arch, double
chamfered arch to north chapel and similar at east end of north
aisle. Fittings removed apart from C19 west gallery and facetted
pulpit. At the east end of the south aisle a marble wall
monument 1858 with draped urn. Church is now in advanced state
of decay.

Listing NGR: TF4248082188

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595185

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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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990