Church Of St Giles

Church of St Giles is a church constructed between 1866 and 1867, designed by WD Griffin. It is built of rock-faced red sandstone with a tile roof. The church comprises a north-west tower, a nave, aisles with pitched roofs, north and south transepts, a lower chancel, and a south chapel. The tower features angle buttresses and a parapet that steps up in the centre. The bell openings are moulded, each with two lights and Geometrical tracery, topped with gabled hoods. Below, on the west side of the tower, are two single-light windows. The west doorway, at the base of the tower, is moulded and pointed, with a gabled hood above. The windows generally incorporate Geometrical tracery. The west nave window has five lights, and the west window of the south aisle has two. The south aisle has four bays separated by buttresses, while the north aisle has three, with an additional single-light window to the right. The north transept has windows of three and four lights, and the south transept, a window of four lights. The east window has five lights.

Inside, the nave features four-bay arcades with pointed arches, each chamfered in two orders. The columns have foliated capitals and are formed of four clustered shafts, except for the eastern bay, which is wider and is separated from the others by a round column. At the west end is a very narrow bay spanned at mid-height by a segmental arch, possibly originally connected to a since-removed gallery. The nave roof trusses have tie-beams, king-posts rising to the ridge, and arch-braces rising from the tie-beams to meet the king-posts below the ridge. All incorporate wall posts carried on stone corbels; alternate trusses have longer posts with curved braces rising from the corbels to meet in the centre of the tie-beam. Timber quatrefoils are set within the spandrels of the arches. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed. A three-bay arcade with round piers and foliated capitals separates the south chapel from the chancel. An organ is housed within a stone arch on the north side. Re-set on the aisle walls are wall tablets dating from the early 19th century. The east window contains stained glass from the late 19th century.