Church of St Margaret Pattens

The Church of St Margaret Pattens stood on the south-east angle of Rood Lane. The lane received its name from a rood, or cross, set up in the church-yard of St Margaret's. This cross was blessed in a particular manner, and privileged by the pope with many indulgences for the pardon of sins who came to pray before it. On the night of the 22nd May 1538 (the time of the Reformation in England) a crowd of people broke the rood to pieces. The church itself was destroyed in 1666 and a new one immediately re-built.