Church Of St Giles

The Church of St. Giles is a parish church located in Netherwitton, with its chancel possibly dating back to the 12th century, altered in the 15th century. The nave was rebuilt in the 18th century and remodeled, with a vestry added in 1886. The church is constructed of squared stone, roughly shaped in the chancel, and features a grey slate roof. It has an aisled three-bay nave with a south porch and a chancel that includes a vestry on the north side. The 19th-century work is designed in a free 14th/15th-century style.

The west end of the church features a three-light window with a quatrefoil window above, flanked by stepped buttresses. There is an 18th-century bellcote on the coped gable, which has a round-headed opening with imposts, a semicircular cap, and a rusticated obelisk finial. The south nave wall has a projecting porch with a pointed double-chamfered arch and a three-light window to the right. The north wall contains two three-light windows. The south chancel wall shows an inserted priest's door with a flattened triangular head in a square chamfered surround, with a lintel dated 1691, and flanking 19th-century two-light windows. The north wall has a restored window, while the east end features a 15th-century three-light window set high in the wall, with trefoil-headed lights and a central light under an ogee head, all within a four-centred arch with a hoodmould. Above this window are raised armorial panels.

Inside, the church has double-chamfered three-bay nave arcades from 1864. The medieval chancel arch is double-chamfered with a chamfered hoodmould towards the nave, and the inner order rests on semi-octagonal responds with restored capitals and bases. There is a 19th-century four-centred vestry door and an opening with a timber lintel leading into the organ chamber. Most fittings are from the 19th century or later, except for a 13th or 14th-century font with a circular bowl, shaft, and moulded base on an octagonal plinth. A 14th-century female effigy, in two pieces but well preserved, is located on the north side of the sanctuary, along with a small 14th or 15th-century cross slab to the south. A large 15th-century cross slab with armorial bearings is set in the north wall of the chancel, and in the east wall of the vestry, there are two 12th-century chevron voussoirs and a 12th or 13th-century cross slab head. The nave features a late Georgian panelled dado and Minton tiles in the sanctuary.