Church Of St Giles

The Church of St. Giles is a parish church largely dating from the 14th century, with a late 15th-century west tower. It is constructed of flint with ashlar quoins and slate roofs. The nave and chancel survive, with nave aisles having been removed and the church partly rebuilt in 1786. The four-stage tower features string courses, diagonal stepped buttresses, a 3-light west window, and square ringing chamber windows with tracery composed of four mouchettes in a diagonal petal arrangement. Two square-headed belfry windows are also present, along with a stair turret to the south-east.

The nave has stepped side buttresses, some of which were rebuilt in 1786. A gabled south porch is constructed of rendered brick with ashlar quoins and commemorates the church's reconstruction. Three 2-light Y-tracery windows are situated in the nave, set within the centres of blocked arcade openings. The chancel is supported by a stepped buttress to the south and has eastern polygonal turrets topped with crocketed finials. It contains two 3-light cusped intersecting windows on the south side, with hoods on head stops, and a 5-light cusped intersecting east window. An arched priests' door deflects the path of a string course that runs beneath the window sills.

The north chancel includes a blocked window to the west of a lean-to 18th-century pantiled vestry of rendered brick. An arched doorway and a 2-light Y-traceried window are also present on the north side.

Internally, fragments of an octagonal 4-bay arcade remain embedded in the nave walls, featuring polygonal moulded capitals and hollow chamfered arches. A tall wave-moulded tower arch, with semi-circular responds, and a similar chancel arch, with octagonal responds and polygonal capitals, are also present. The church retains a fine 14th-century scissor-braced roof with collars and ashlaring. A 15th-century octagonal font has engaged columns framing ogee arches, with the bowl alternately decorated with panels of twin ogee arches and 4-lobed petal tracery. A 14th-century wall painting above the chancel arch depicts Christ exhibiting his wounds. An arched priests' door in the north chancel wall leads into the vestry, with a blocked window and a basket-arched recess nearby. Also within the south wall sits a cinquefoiled arched piscina. The 18th-century chancel roof is of thin scantling and incorporates collars on arched braces, with principals and two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins.