Church Of St Giles

The Church of St Giles, built around 1780, is a parish church constructed in the Gothick style. It is located on Newark Road in Ollerton. The exterior is of irregularly coursed ashlar and brick, rendered and finished with plain tile and gabled and lean-to slate roofs, set beneath a low pitch. Ashlar dressings are present, including a single capped gable stack.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave, and a chancel all under a continuous roof, alongside a 19th-century vestry and adjoining store. The three-stage west tower features a chamfered plinth, two string courses, a crenellated parapet with four crocketed pinnacles, and a wind vane. The first stage has a doorway with a lancet-panelled door to the north. The second stage contains a clock to the south and west, and a double lancet to the north. The third stage has four double lancet, louvred openings. The nave, with four bays, has four triple lancets on each side. The north side includes a lean-to store with a cross window to the west and a door to the east. A single-bay, lean-to vestry has a single mullioned window to the east. The chancel has a triple lancet to the east. A gabled south porch features a moulded, pointed doorway.

Inside, the church contains wooden benches, an arched plaster ceiling, and a chamfered, pointed doorway with diagonal boarded doors. The aisleless nave incorporates elliptical window heads and intermediate ogee-headed panels. A moulded cornice leads to a coved plaster ceiling, which houses a 19th-century brass chandelier. The south-east window contains stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, dated 1875. The lower half round tower arch incorporates a moulded arris, while a 1901 screen is of 13th-century style panelled design. The tower chamber features a rounded stair enclosure with a curved, boarded door. The half round chancel arch includes a panelled intrados. The chancel features fielded panelling to half height, a moulded cornice, and stained glass by C. G. S. Foljambe, dated 1871. Furnishings include roll-moulded panelled benches, mid-19th century cast iron desks and a lectern, a late 19th-century panelled octagonal pulpit, and a round, polished granite font with grouped shafts. Other items include a 17th-century oak plank parish chest with three locks, an 18th-century chair with turned legs and a cutout carved back, and monuments which include a re-sited headstone to Col. Thomas Markham (1643), a late 18th-century hatchment, a classical marble tablet dated 1825, and eight 20th-century brasses. A war memorial brass dates to 1919.