St Margaret, Somerton
St Margaret, Somerton
St Margaret’s is a Grade I parish church at Upper Somerton, Suffolk, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
- Location
- Somerton, Suffolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Suffolk
- City / town
- Somerton
- Address
- Somerton, Suffolk, IP29 4ND
- Postcode
- IP29 4ND
- Built
- C13 flint nave; blocked Norman north doorway; early C14 chancel and chapel
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Margaret
- Diocese
- St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Parish
- Somerton
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman and Decorated Gothic
- Materials
- Flint with stone dressings
- Grid reference
- TL 810 530
- Opening hours
- Open each Saturday and Sunday. Key access info is in the porch and Churchwardens live close by.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists a small thirteenth-century flint church with a blocked Norman north doorway of one order of shafts with scalloped capitals. The west tower has diagonal buttresses and a castellated parapet with flint and stone chequerwork. The chancel and chancel chapel are early fourteenth-century. The east window is Perpendicular, with early fourteenth-century shafting inside, and there is a shafted squint.
The interior has a fine octagonal Jacobean pulpit with ornamented panels, a Jacobean or early Stuart communion rail, and a fifteenth-century octagonal font carved with roses and shields. The church is not in the Domesday Survey of Somerton; a list of rectors begins in 1332. It overlooks Hawkedon and the surrounding countryside. Keys are noted in the porch, with churchwardens living nearby.