---
title: "St Margaret, East Wellow"
description: "Located in East Wellow, Hampshire. Built Early and late C13 chancel and nave; C16 south aisle; C19 vestry. Diocese of Winchester. Grade I. Medieval parish church style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Hampshire","East Wellow","Grade I","Medieval","Florence Nightingale"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-margaret-east-wellow"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:37:51.526Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:34:08.912Z"
location: "East Wellow, Hampshire"
country: "England"
county: "Hampshire"
town: "East Wellow"
address: "Church Lane, East Wellow, Hampshire, SO51 5DR"
postcode: "SO51 5DR"
built: "Early and late C13 chancel and nave; C16 south aisle; C19 vestry"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Margaret"]
diocese: "Winchester"
grade: "I"
style: "Medieval parish church"
materials: "Mixed flint and stone with stone dressings; tiled roof"
website: "https://sites.google.com/a/stmargaretswellow.org/st-margaret-s-church-wellow/home"
openingHours: "Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church."
parish: "East and West Wellow"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1339214"
gridReference: "SU 304 202"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Margaret, East Wellow

St Margaret’s is a Grade I parish church on Hackleys Lane, East Wellow, Hampshire, in the Diocese of Winchester, best known as the burial place of Florence Nightingale.

## Overview

Historic England dates the chancel and nave to the early and late thirteenth century, with some fourteenth-century detail, a sixteenth-century south aisle, a nineteenth-century vestry and minor twentieth-century change. Walls are mixed flint and stone with stone dressings; the roof is tiled, with a catslide over the aisle and two dormers that once lit a gallery. The plan is an aisleless nave and chancel, a narrow three-bay south aisle, south porch and north vestry, under a square western bell turret carried on three massive posts.

The interior keeps much medieval plaster, with wall paintings including rosettes in squares, consecration crosses, a St Christopher on the north wall, a seated lady, and fragments of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Jacobean woodwork panels the chancel; there are Jacobean communion rails and a panelled pulpit with tester. The fourteenth-century porch is timber-framed, with an arch-braced opening and cusped bargeboards. In the churchyard, a separate Grade II Gothic monument 18 metres south of the church commemorates the Nightingale family, including Florence Nightingale (1820–1910).

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1339214](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1339214)
- [Parish site](https://sites.google.com/a/stmargaretswellow.org/st-margaret-s-church-wellow/home)