ST MARGARET'S STREET (North-west side) TR 1457 NE 4/199 Church of St Margaret The grade shall be amended to read II* (star) The description should be amended to read Former parish church. C12 in origin but rebuilt in C15 and heavily restored C1850 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Faced with knapped flint with stone dressings and tiled roof. 3 bay nave with chancel reduced to a polygonal apse by Scott for road widening, north and south aisles and south west tower. South west tower has C15 lower stage with clasping buttresses and octagonal turret added by Scott, and squarish bell stage with lancets and crenellated parapet recon- structed after bomb damage in 1942. Nave is C15 restored with west gable end with Decorated style traceried window by Scott and west doorway which is a Scott copy of the Mid C12 doorway with shafts and billet on the hood mould. Aisles are also C15 altered by Scott and have Decorated style windows. Continuous plinth moulding. Interior has 3 bay nave with 4 bay crownpost roof. Aisles have reconstructed octagonal piers and a double wave on the arches. Early C14 piscina in south wall of North chapel. Good monuments including Sir George Newman (d 1627), a large wall monument at east end of south aisle with effigy in legal robes reclining on one side set in architectural surround including columns, open pediment and scrolls flanking the inscription. Joseph Colfe (d 1620) an architectural wall tablet and John Watson (d 1642) in the South wall, a half-figure facing the front in architectural niche wearing a ruff and resting his left hand on a skull. There are a series of good C17 and C18 wall plaques including one to John Barret and Paul Lukin (d 1709) a big architectural tablet with mourning putti signed by John Friend. Brass to John Wynter, twice Mayor of Canterbury (d 1470) in civilian dress. The church was built on the remains of Roman public baths. At first belonging to St Augustine's Abbey the church was given to the Poor Priests Hospital in 1271 in whose hands it remained until 1575. (See BOE "East Kent" P 232 and Canterbury Archaeological Trust pamphlet by Tim Tatton Brown "April 1986) 1. 944 ST MARGARET'S STREET (North West Side) Church of St Margaret TR 1457 NE 4/199 3.12.49. B GV 2. C14 but heavily restored circa 1850 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The exterior is flint faced with stone quoins and dressings and tiled roof. Crenellated parapet and squat tower. Windows are 3-light lancets. Interior has a 3 bay nave, apse and south Aisle. C16 brass. Part of the building dates from the C12. At first belonging to St Augustine's Abbey, the Church was given to the Poor Priests Hospital in 1271, in whose hands it remained until 15750. Elizabethan wall monuments and C16 brass. Nos 27 to 36 (consec) and Church of St Margaret form a group. Listing NGR: TR1488757741