Parish Church Of St Giles

HOLME CHURCH STREET TL 1887 (North Side) 12/34 Parish church of St Giles 13.12.57

GV II*

Parish Church. Reused C12 and C13 material from original parish church demolished and rebuilt in 1862 by Edward Browning. Hammer dressed limestone walls; plain tiled roofs with parapet gables. South elevation: bellcote to west end with double linked gables with two bells. Four clerestory windows with tracery and south aisle windows with square-headed arches and tracery in Decorated style. South porch and doorway incorporating early material in jambs of two-centred arches. Two chancel windows of two lancet-lights with stopped labels. Interior: nave arcades of three bays extended by one bay to west incorporating the original two-centred arches supported on octagonal and circular columns with moulded and cushion capitals and moulded bases. Two-centred chancel arch of two chamfered orders springing from moulded corbels; organ chamber with two-centred archway on north side of chancel. Font, plain octagonal bowl recorded in 1851 (VCH). For monuments and wall plaques see (VCH).

V C H Huntingdonshire, p187 R C H M Huntingdonshire, p140 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p266 Glatton, Holme and Denton, estate map for Wm Wells 1770 H.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL1893287968