Church Of St Giles

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA12NW CHURCH LANE, Marfleet 680-1/9/435 (East side) Church of St Giles

GV II

Parish church. 1884. By JT Webster. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Early English style. Chamfered plinth, sill band and eaves, coped gables, the eastern ones with crosses. Buttressed throughout. Nave, chancel, vestry. Chancel, 3 bays, has to east a triple lancet with plate tracery and hoodmould. To south, 3 cusped single lancets. North side has attached gabled vestry with a side wall stack, doorway to east and triple lancet to north. Nave has on either side 3 double lancets with quatrefoil heads. West end has a projecting central bay with double chamfered cusped doorway with hoodmould and mask stops, and above it, a double lancet with quatrefoil head, hoodmould and imposts. Above again, a cross gabled single bell turret topped with a cross. On either side, a single lancet. INTERIOR; chancel has a double rebated moulded arch with imposts and matchboarded waggon roof. East end has traceried wooden panelling and reredos dated 1921 and 1930, and stained-glass window by Kempe, 1905. To north, a chamfered pointed doorway and to south, 3 windows. Nave has matchboarded waggon roof, and at the west end, a corniced wooden porch. Windows have no stained glass. Fittings include octagonal ashlar font dated 1864, benches with shaped ends, C19, and stalls c1920. Decorated style traceried octagonal oak pulpit, desks and buttressed lectern, mid C20. Memorials include marble tablet with urn and crest, 1831, another with obelisk and draped urn, 1836, a larger memorial with obelisk, crest, urn and figure, 1854, all signed by J Earle. 5 similar marble tablets, early and mid C19. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York & the East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 279).

Listing NGR: TA1435229497