---
title: "St Margaret, Somerton"
description: "Located in Somerton, Suffolk. Built C13 flint nave; blocked Norman north doorway; early C14 chancel and chapel. Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Grade I. Norman and Decorated Gothic style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Suffolk","Somerton","Grade I","Norman","Decorated","Diocese of St Edmundsbury"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/somerton-st-margaret"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:41:40.395Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:58:50.753Z"
location: "Somerton, Suffolk"
country: "England"
county: "Suffolk"
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"
dedications: ["Margaret"]
diocese: "St Edmundsbury and Ipswich"
grade: "I"
style: "Norman and Decorated Gothic"
materials: "Flint with stone dressings"
openingHours: "Open each Saturday and Sunday. Key access info is in the porch and Churchwardens live close by."
parish: "Somerton"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033564"
gridReference: "TL 810 530"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas"
---

# St Margaret, Somerton

St Margaret’s is a Grade I parish church at Upper Somerton, Suffolk, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

## 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.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1033564](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033564)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Margaret, Somerton](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033564-church-of-st-margaret-somerton)