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SU 32 SW
2/27

WELLOW
HACKLEY'S LANE
Church of St Margaret

29.5.57

GV
I
Parish church. Early and late C13 chancel and nave, some C14 details, C16 south aisle, C19 vestry, C20 minor changes. Walls of mixed flint and stone with stone dressings; buttress to the west wall, lancets (triple to the east window), triple cusped lights within square frames (C16), a C16 oak-framed window, Two Victorian windows. Tile roof, with catslide above the aisle and two dormers (to light the former gallery); square western bell turret. Aisleless nave and chancel, narrow C16 south aisle of three bays, south porch, north vestry.

The interior has much medieval plasterwork, with wall paintings, mainly patterning of walls with rosettes in squares, several consecration crosses, a St Christopher (north wall) and a seated lady, and fragmentary remains of the Martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket. The bell turret is supported on three massive posts, and two similar posts separate the narrow aisle from the nave. Jacobean woodwork is used to panel the chancel, and there are Jacobean communion rails, and a panelled pulpit with a tester. Piscina, stoup; Victorian font. One wall monument of 1776. The C14 porch is timber-framed, with arch braced opening, and cusped bargeboards.

Listing NGR: SU3039720249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528559

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