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Latitude: 51.4999 / 51°29'59"N
Longitude: -0.1267 / 0°7'36"W
OS Eastings: 530124
OS Northings: 179547
OS Grid: TQ301795
Mapcode National: GBR HJ.QH
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.RKCJ
Plus Code: 9C3XFVXF+X8
Entry Name: Church of St Margaret, Westminster
Listing Date: 24 February 1958
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1226286
English Heritage Legacy ID: 423500
Also known as: St. Margaret's, Westminster
Church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey
St Margaret's, Westminster
ID on this website: 101226286
Location: Westminster, London, SW1P
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Westminster Abbey Extra Parochial Place
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church of England parish church Perpendicular Gothic
TQ 3079 NW
92/54
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PARLIAMENT SQUARE, SW1 (south side)
Church of St Margaret, Westminster
24.2.58
GV
I
Parish church. C11/C12 foundation, rebuilt early C16: c1504 the nave and aisles, with west tower begun 1515, chancel c1518; by the Westminster Abbey masons Robert Stowell and Henry Redman. Extensive C18 and C19 restoration: most of tower rebuilt 1735-37 by John James; 1778 south east vestry; west porch by J.L Pearson; projecting east end of chancel 1905 by G.G Scott. Portland stone refacing and renewed tracery. Late Perpendicular. Crenellated parapets to aisles; tall clerestory with plain parapets. Polygonal buttressed tower with large framed Perpendicular bell openings, quatrefoil frieze and panelled battlements. Inside the nave and chancel are not separated but a single eight bay vessel, slender shafted piers to two-centred arcade with traceried spandrels, clerestory over. East window has fine Gothic-Renaissance transitional Flemish stained glass, probably part of Katharine of Aragon's dowry and intended for Henry VII's Chapel; west window 1882 by Clayton and Bell; south aisle west window 1882 by Henry Holiday; north aisle: west window 1888 by Clayton and Bell, two north windows 1888 and 1891 by Edward Frampton; 1966 abstract glass by John Piper. Good collection of monuments.
Listing NGR: TQ3012079545
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