Church of St Giles is a Grade II* listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1949. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Giles

WRENN ID
shifting-corner-ochre
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Warwick
Constituency
Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1949
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Giles, Glasshouse Lane, Lapworth
OS grid reference
SP 169 728
Coordinates
52.35312, -1.75197
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Giles is a church largely dating to the 13th century, with a tower of about 1500, a north transept from around 1704, and a 19th-century vestry and organ bay. It is constructed of squared, random coursed stone, with brick to the north transept, and has plain-tile roofs to the nave, chancel and transept. The tower roof is not visible.

The church comprises a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave, a single-bay north transept, and a west tower. The nave has a timber-framed section with a two-centred arched doorway and a ribbed wood door. There are lancets with trefoil heads to the left of the nave and a Y-tracery window to the right. The chancel has a blocked two-centred arched doorway to the left and a lancet with trefoil head to the left, with a Y-tracery window to the right. The east end of the chancel has a three-light intersecting tracery window. A Y-tracery window is visible on the north side of the chancel, with cusped lancets to the organ bay. A round-headed three-light intersecting tracery window is set into the north transept. Irregular 19th-century windows are present in the vestry. The tower has a four-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels and a hood mould, with a three-light Perpendicular tracery window above. A glazed rectangular opening is visible to each side of the ringers chamber. A stair turret projects to the south, featuring a sundial, and the tower is topped with a battlemented parapet.

Inside, the chancel features a two-bay Queen-post roof with wind braces, a cusped piscina, fragments of medieval glass, an 18th-century altar rail with a wood baluster balustrade, a 15th-century chancel screen with lancet openings, and 19th-century choir stalls. A two-centred chancel arch is present. The nave has a three-bay collar-truss roof. There is a 19th-century wood pulpit and pews. An octagonal stone pillar supports a likely 13th-century round stone font. A two-centred arch leads to the tower, and a round arch leads to the transept, with a 17th-century transept screen. There are memorial plaques to the Featherston family of Packwood Hall. Medieval wall paintings are found above the chancel arch.

The tower was built by Nicholas Brome, Lord of Baddesley Clinton manor, as atonement for a crime. The north transept was built for the Featherston family of Packwood House.

Local climate

Church of St Giles receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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