---
title: "St Margaret, Hardwick"
description: "Located in Hardwick, Norfolk. Built C12 nave; C14 chancel; C15 roof, screen and porch; restored 1882. Diocese of Norwich. Grade I. Norman and Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Norfolk","Hardwick","Grade I","Norman","Perpendicular","Diocese of Norwich"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-margaret-hardwick"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:47:19.857Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:59:28.552Z"
location: "Hardwick, Norfolk"
country: "England"
county: "Norfolk"
town: "Hardwick"
address: "The Street, Hardwick, Norfolk, NR15 2AB"
postcode: "NR15 2AB"
built: "C12 nave; C14 chancel; C15 roof, screen and porch; restored 1882"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Margaret"]
diocese: "Norwich"
grade: "I"
style: "Norman and Perpendicular"
materials: "Flint; C15 south porch of chequered brick and knapped flint"
website: "http://www.hempnallgroup.co.uk/churches-and-church-life/our-villages8997/hardwick/"
openingHours: "Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church."
parish: "Shelton and Hardwick"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1156827"
gridReference: "TM 223 900"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Margaret, Hardwick

St Margaret’s is a Grade I parish church on The Street, Hardwick, South Norfolk, in the Diocese of Norwich and the Hempnall Group. Historic England dates the fabric from the twelfth century: a long nave and chancel in one, whose round west tower collapsed in 1770, leaving only the east side of the tower just above nave-roof level.

## Overview

The listing records a plain Norman north doorway and an altered Norman south doorway, two-light Perpendicular south windows, Decorated north windows including one with Y-tracery, and a three-light Perpendicular east window. The fifteenth-century south porch is of chequered brick and knapped flint, with a moulded brick arch and brick two-light Perpendicular side windows. Inside is a fifteenth-century arch-braced roof with crenellated wall plate, rood stairs, and a fifteenth-century screen with traceried pointed arches and a painted dado. A wall painting of St Christopher of about 1390 survives on the north wall. Other fittings include a seventeenth-century manorial pew with tester, an early seventeenth-century communion rail with flat balusters, a fifteenth-century octagonal font, fragments of stained glass, and tomb-chests to Thomas Glean (1666) and Sir Peter Gleane (1685).

Norfolk Heritage Explorer adds that the nave is late Norman, the chancel early fourteenth-century, and the nave windows, font and St Christopher painting of the late fourteenth century; the arch-braced roof was raised in the mid- to late fifteenth century. A major restoration took place in 1882; the east wall was rebuilt in 1986. The screen was restored in 1611 and again in 1661 after Puritan damage.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1156827](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1156827)
- [Hempnall Group: Hardwick](http://www.hempnallgroup.co.uk/churches-and-church-life/our-villages8997/hardwick/)