Church Of St Giles

The Church of St. Giles is a small church dating from 1852, designed by Squirhill. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar with moulded cornices, and has tile roofs with stone coped gable parapets and gablet kneelers. The church consists of a chancel, nave, a north aisle and porch, and a north-west tower. It is built in a simple Gothic Revival Decorated style.

The chancel is two bays wide, and the nave is four bays wide. Buttresses of two offsets define the diagonal west angle and other parts of the building. The chancel has a moulded sill course that steps up below the east window. The east and west windows are three-light, double-chamfered, with cusped intersecting tracery and hood moulds featuring foliage stops. The north and south sides of the nave contain traceried, ogee lancet windows with relieving arches. The porch has a doorway with two moulded orders and double-leaf doors with decorative hinges, and incorporates trefoil openings cut from a single block.

Inside, a simple moulded south doorway may be mediaeval. There are two north-facing two-light, segmental-pointed windows with reticulated tracery and relieving arches. The tower has three low stages and abuts the porch; it features a high double plinth and angle buttresses. A traceried north ogee lancet window is set into the second stage, while smaller ogee lancets with gablets break into the splay course. The octagonal third stage has traceried lancet bell openings with hood moulds to four faces, with clock faces across openings to three sides. A moulded cornice sits below a steep, stone pyramidal roof.

The interior features scored imitation ashlar plastered walls. The chancel has a moulded stone sill course, and both chancel and nave have arched braced trefoiled queen strut roofs, with stone ball flower corbels to the chancel and shaped corbels to the nave. The chancel arch has an outer arch with imposts and an inner arch on triple colonnettes with leaf capitals and corbels. Plaster arches of two chamfered orders are found throughout. The entrance to the reading desk, in the north-east corner of the nave, has a segmental pointed arch across the angle, with a similar arch across the aisle’s south-east corner. The three-bay arcade has low round piers with moulded capitals. The north aisle has a lean-to roof. Original fittings include a stone reredos of cinque-foiled arches, an octagonal font, altar rails, stalls, a reading desk, and a pulpit. A stained glass window in the east window commemorates Edward Bolton King (1876).