St Margaret's Church, Owthorpe is a

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parish church in the

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Owthorpe Owthorpe is a small English village and civil parish in the Wolds of the East Midland county of Nottinghamshire. The population of about 90 was included in the civil parish of Cotgrave in the 2011 Census. Location and governance Owthorpe is ad ...

. Owthorpe has an unusual Grade I listed

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church, dedicated to

St Margaret of Antioch Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr ( grc-gre, Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in the Western Rite Orthodoxy, Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism, o ...

, once considered a patron saint of pregnancy. It stands away from the village in farmland, surrounded by a low wall, next to the site where the manor stood. Access is only along a public footpath – a narrow grass track, often muddy in the winter months – and through a timber gate. Some features of St Margaret's date from the 12th century, although the structure underwent many changes over the centuries. It was rebuilt about 1650.''White's Directory of Nottinghamshire'', 1853
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/ref> The north wall is a surviving part of the original, larger church. Inside it has an oak-panelled, three-decker pulpit-cum-lectern with a Jacobean canopy, which is still in use. In 1680 the church installed a clock built by Richard Roe of

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. The octagonal castellated font is thought to be from the 15th century. A wooden screen dividing the nave from the chancel is said to have come from Owthorpe Hall. The church was restored in 1888 and again in 1905 by Arthur Brewill and

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when the plaster ceiling was removed to expose the roof timbers, and the masonry of the windows was restored and the windows reglazed.

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(d. 11 September 1664)

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