Parish Church of St Giles is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1957. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.

Parish Church of St Giles

WRENN ID
worn-thatch-ridge
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1957
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Parish Church of St Giles, Church Street, Holme, PE7 3PB
OS grid reference
TL 189 879
Coordinates
52.47671, -0.2503
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Giles is a parish church rebuilt in 1862 by Edward Browning, using reused materials from the original church dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries. It features hammer-dressed limestone walls and plain tiled roofs with parapet gables. On the south elevation, there is a bellcote at the west end with double linked gables housing two bells. The church has four clerestory windows with tracery and south aisle windows with square-headed arches and tracery in the Decorated style. The south porch and doorway include early materials in the jambs of two-centred arches. The chancel has two windows with two lancet lights and stopped labels.

Inside, the nave arcades consist of three bays, extended by one bay to the west, incorporating the original two-centred arches supported by octagonal and circular columns with moulded and cushion capitals and moulded bases. The chancel arch is two-centred and has two chamfered orders that spring from moulded corbels. There is an organ chamber with a two-centred archway on the north side of the chancel. The font is a plain octagonal bowl recorded in 1851. For details on monuments and wall plaques, refer to the Victoria County History.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Giles sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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