Church of St Margaret, Rainham

Heritage listing

Details GILLINGHAM TQ86NW HIGH STREET, Rainham 686-1/8/107 (South side) 24/02/50 Church of St Margaret (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Rainham (South side) St Margaret's Church) GV I Church. Originally c1066, chancel and N chapel largely rebuilt mid C13, nave and N aisle early C14, C15 roof, tower c1470; restored 1869-71 by Joseph Clarke. MATERIALS: flint, partly rendered, and limestone dressings, tile-hung nave and aisle gables and Kentish ragstone rubble tower; tiled roof. STYLE: Decorated and Perpendicular. PLAN: chancel and N chapel, nave and N aisle and N and S porches and W tower. EXTERIOR: E end has 2 gables, the taller chancel gable has a single left-hand buttress and roughly-coursed masonry in the top of the gable, with a C19 3-light window; chapel gable has a right-hand buttress with offsets, some render to the top, a C19 4-light window with Decorated tracery, and a low C19 3-light mullion cellar window. 3-light N side has two C19 1-light windows with an altered C16 2-light W window with flat 2-centre arch. S side has a central buttress with an early C13 lancet to the right; C14 2-light windows either side, and a left-hand paired C16 window. Wider nave and aisles have tile-hung E gables, that to the nave with an 2-light C14 window; the N aisle is 4-bays with a C19 gabled porch with 2-centre arched doorway with hood mould and small 2-light side windows in a flat-headed frame, to an inner door with a fine C14 studded door; left-hand windows divided by a buttress, C16 shallow 2-centre arched left-hand window and 2-centre arched C19 windows either side of the porch. Crenellated 3-stage tower has angle buttresses and strings, with an octagonal NE stair tower offset at parapet level. A plain 2-centre arched W doorway with double doors beneath a 3-light window, a s

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.