The History of St Margaret’s

St Margaret the Queen Church is a beautiful Grade II listed, built between 1889 and 1907 in an Early English style with Arts and Crafts influences.

The building is of architectural value as an example of a turn of the twentieth century building which forms an integral part of a planned estate. The church uses the same palette of materials as the surrounding houses, which were designed in conjunction with the church by Rowland Plumbe.

The building has great artistic value for its reredos, pulpit, lectern, piscina, sedilia, candle standards and richly decorated chancel panelling by ecclesiastical architect William Douglas Caröe 1909, in a mixture of High Victorian Gothic and Arts and Crafts styling. The stained-glass windows contribute to the decorative scheme of the church and are an important part of its liturgy, mostly designed by Horace and Alfred Wilkinson