Church Of St Giles is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- vacant-trefoil-gold
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TG 93 NW BARSHAM WALSINGHAM ROAD 2/15 (west side) Houghton St Giles
6.3.59 Church of St Giles
I
Parish church. Largely C14 fabric rebuilt 1877 by William Eden Nesfield, architect. Flint with stone dressings and red tiles. West tower, south porch, nave and chancel. C14 tower with trefoil heads to each of 4 bell openings, with C15 2-light west window. South wall with an isolated lancet, a 2-light straight-headed perpendicular window and one 3-light perpendicular window; perpendicular south porch with four-centred arch and angle buttresses; wall table C18 on mid-point of wall; chancel south wall with one round-headed and one perpendicular straight-headed 3-light window. East window Curvilinear with cusping C14. North nave wall: north doorway, two 2-light cusped "Y" tracery windows and one 3-light straight-headed perpendicular window. Interior: perpendicular tower arch, no chancel arch. Nave roof of 1877 scissor-framed trusses closely set together. Perpendicular Rood Screen with elaborate double cusped tracery heads and painted dado with six female saints and six theologian saints. C17 Communion rails, Nesfield stalls.
Listing NGR: TF9237235362
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