Church of St Giles is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Giles

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Giles, Potton Road, Tadlow
OS grid reference
TL 279 476
Coordinates
52.11205, -0.13222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Giles is a parish church located on Potton Road in Tadlow. It features a nave and chancel dating from the 13th century, with a west tower added around 1400. The church underwent restoration around 1860, overseen by the architect W. Butterfield. It is constructed from fieldstone and clunch rubble, with limestone and clunch dressings, and has plain tiled roofs.

The west tower consists of three stages and includes a west doorway with a pointed arch that has continuous moulding and a square head featuring dagger tracery in the spandrels. The west window has two cinquefoil lights set in a four-centred arch with a label. The bell stage has two similar openings in a four-centred arch. The aisleless nave has a south wall that was refenestrated in the 14th to 15th centuries, featuring three windows with two cinquefoil lights and vertical tracery in a depressed arch. The south doorway, dating from the 13th century, has a two-centred arch with three moulded orders, supported by nook shafts with restored capitals and bases.

The chancel has two restored 19th-century lancets in the north and south walls, and the east wall has been rebuilt with three graduated lancets from the 19th century. There are also two 13th-century lancets in the north wall of the nave. Inside, the west tower has been added with a corrected orientation and features a two-centred tower arch with two chamfered orders; the inner order rests on engaged shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The deep splays to the rear arches of the 13th-century lancets in the north wall are notable. The roof was rebuilt in the 19th century. The chancel was internally remodelled around 1860, showcasing polychrome tiles and a painted boarded ceiling. The font, designed by Butterfield, has a grey marble octagonal bowl with panelled sides, raised gables in relief, and an intaglio quatrefoil of white marble, supported by a broach stopped octagonal stem.

Local climate

Church of St Giles sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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