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Watercolor painting of a calm pond in the foreground, with trees and a church spire visible across a flat, grassy landscape.

St Margaret Hemingford Abbots, William Fraser Garden (1856-1921)

St Margaret of Antioch, Hemingford Abbots

History of St Margaret

Listed Building

Parish Church. C13 with late C14 tower and spire. Stone, rubble and Barnack stone dressings; roofs of lead, copper and slates. Modern gault brick chancel. Tower of three stages with moulded plinth and embattled parapet. The angle buttresses, semi-hexagonal, semi-octagonal and diagonal at each stage are finished with gabled and crocketed pinnacles.

Watercolour painting of a church with a tall steeple behind trees and a thatched building beside a calm, reflective river.

Hemingford Abbots church and The Granary, William Fraser Garden (1856-1921)

A gabled timber lychgate with open wooden gates stands before a lawn, white building, and brick wall under a cloudy sky.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A timber lychgate frames a path leading to a stone church with a tall spire, set within a walled graveyard under cloudy skies.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A stone church with a tall spire and clock face above a graveyard featuring many weathered, upright tombstones under a sky.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

The interior of a church with stone arches, a timber-beamed ceiling, rows of wooden pews, and a stained glass window.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

Decorative timber ceiling featuring grid-patterned wooden beams with carved floral bosses and painted chevron detailing.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A polished brass memorial plaque featuring an engraved list of names commemorating men who fell in the Great War.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A carved wooden angel figure standing against a vertical timber beam between decorated panels on a church ceiling.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A carved wooden angel holding a shield is mounted on a decorated beam against a background of dark wooden ceiling planks.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A black stone plaque with incised white Latin text commemorating Iacobus Maxey, featuring dates from 1686 and 1710.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A black stone memorial plaque with white incised lettering detailing charitable bequests to the poor, dated Anno Dom: 1727.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A hand-drawn Roll of Honour document with decorative borders, listing names and military regiments for Hemingford Abbots.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A weathered stone chest tomb with a diamond-shaped inscription panel bearing the name Susan Gunnell dated January 1866.

St Margaret, Hemmingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A tall church spire rises above trees, framed by two white buildings with thatched roofs and a black wooden gate in between.

St Margaret of Antioch, Hemingford Abbots (RGL2025)

A church spire rises in the distance behind a gravel path between a brick building on the left and a thatched building.

St Margaret of Antioch, Hemingford Abbot (RGL2025)

Watercolor painting showing a river in the foreground with a church spire rising above trees and cottages in the distance.

Hemingford Abbots by Gilbert Baird Fraser

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