Church Of Saint Giles

The Church of Saint Giles is a Grade II* listed building located in Hayton Burnby. It features a nave from the late 12th century and an early 13th-century chancel. The west end was rebuilt in 1840 by Rev. Charles Carr, and the entire church underwent restoration by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1908. The exterior is made of ashlar patched with brick on the south side and coursed rubble on the north, topped with a graduated slate roof.

The nave includes a west bellcote and an infilled arcade where the north aisle once was, along with a chancel that has a three-bay layout and an infilled two-bay arcade leading to the north chapel. The nave has an ogee-headed lancet window to the west and three square-headed two-light windows featuring Perpendicular tracery. The 19th-century bellcote is designed in a Romanesque style, showcasing a double bell-opening and a mid-wall shaft beneath the tympanum. The ornate west door, also in Romanesque style, adds to the church's character.

In the chancel, there is a tall round-headed window with nook shafts adorned with waterleaf capitals and nail-head ornament, all beneath a dentilled hood-mould that culminates in a human head at the apex. The center features a lancet window, while the eastern side has an altered square-headed two-light window with Perpendicular tracery. A pointed double-chamfered priests' door retains its 13th-century hinges, and the east window is a three-light pointed design with intersecting tracery.

Inside, the nave's north arcade consists of cylindrical piers with waterholding bases and octagonal abaci that support double-chamfered segmental arches. The chancel features a cylindrical pier and responds to the north arcade, with round abaci on the pier and octagonal abaci on the responds, supporting double-chamfered arches. The south wall of the chancel contains three early 13th-century sedilia with attached shafts and trefoil heads under gablets, along with a damaged trefoil-headed piscina. The church has a seven-bay principal rafter roof throughout, featuring brattished wall-plates and strutted side purlins. A 12th-century tub font with a later painted inscription is also present.