St Margaret, Wolston
St Margaret, Wolston
St Margaret’s is a Grade I parish church on Main Street, Wolston, Warwickshire, in the Diocese of Coventry.
- Location
- Wolston, Warwickshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Warwickshire
- City / town
- Wolston
- Address
- Main Street, Wolston, Warwickshire, CV8 3HH
- Postcode
- CV8 3HH
- Built
- 12th-century origins; chancel c.1300; remainder rebuilt 14th century; clerestory 15th century; tower rebuilt 1760; restored 1860
- Architect
- Job Collins (1760 tower)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Margaret
- Diocese
- Coventry
- Parish
- Wolston St Margaret
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman crossing with Decorated and Perpendicular work
- Materials
- Coursed limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings; sandstone ashlar tower; lead and plain-tile roofs
- Grid reference
- SP 409 757
- Opening hours
- We are open from Easter Monday until the last Friday in September. During Open Church volunteers will be there to show you around and to give you space to pray on your own or with them. Outside these time contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records twelfth-century origins, a chancel of about 1300, a fourteenth-century rebuild, a fifteenth-century clerestory, a tower rebuilt in 1760 by Job Collins, an eighteenth-century vestry, and restoration in 1860. The body is coursed limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings; the tower is sandstone ashlar. The plan is aisled and cruciform, with a crossing tower and north vestry.
The interior retains a twelfth-century crossing with large east and west arches, nook-shafts and capitals carved with figures and interlace. The south doorway is Romanesque, with zigzag and pellet ornament. The chancel has sedilia and a piscina of about 1300. The south transept has two tomb recesses with effigies of about 1300. The nave roof is fifteenth-century, with three carved bosses. The chancel roof was extensively repaired in 1680 and painted in 1760.