---
title: "St Margaret of Antioch, Stoke Golding"
description: "Located in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire. Built Early 13th century; refashioned and enlarged c.1290–c.1340. Diocese of Leicester. Grade I. Decorated style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Leicestershire","Stoke Golding","Grade I","Decorated","Bosworth"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-margaret-antioch-stoke-golding"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:48:45.513Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T16:06:43.178Z"
location: "Stoke Golding, Leicestershire"
country: "England"
county: "Leicestershire"
town: "Stoke Golding"
address: "Church Walks, Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, CV13 6HE"
postcode: "CV13 6HE"
built: "Early 13th century; refashioned and enlarged c.1290–c.1340"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Margaret"]
diocese: "Leicester"
grade: "I"
style: "Decorated"
materials: "Dressed freestone; lead roofs of low pitch"
website: "https://fennlanesbenefice.org/stoke-golding/"
openingHours: "Our very beautiful church which is open to visitors every day between 9.30am to 4.30pm."
parish: "Stoke Golding with Dadlington"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074214"
gridReference: "SP 397 972"
accessNotes: "Level access throughout"
---

# St Margaret of Antioch, Stoke Golding

St Margaret of Antioch is the Grade I parish church of Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, a richly detailed Decorated church of about 1290–1340 on Crown Hill, in the Diocese of Leicester.

## Overview

Historic England records an early thirteenth-century church refashioned and enlarged between about 1290 and 1340. The plan is west tower, four-bay nave with south aisle, and two-bay chancel with a south chapel of the same build as the aisle. Materials are dressed freestone with low-pitched lead roofs. The tower has angle buttresses, a sculptured-head frieze, gargoyles and an openwork quatrefoil parapet. Nikolaus Pevsner called it one of the most beautiful churches in Leicestershire and praised the nave arcade as treated with ‘lavishness worthy of a cathedral’. The Fenn Lanes Benefice notes that the spire, tower, south aisle and Lady Chapel were added in that Decorated campaign, and that the tower includes heads of Edward III and Queen Philippa.

The church stands at the highest point of the village on Crown Hill, where Henry Tudor is said to have been crowned after the Battle of Bosworth. It was listed Grade I on 8 March 1963 (NHLE 1074214), in the parish of Stoke Golding with Dadlington.

## Further Information

- [Stoke Golding, Fenn Lanes Benefice](https://fennlanesbenefice.org/stoke-golding/)
- [Historic England list entry 1074214](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074214)