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
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Giles, Walsingham Road, Barsham, NR22 6AQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 923 353
- Coordinates
- 52.88133, 0.85748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Giles is a parish church primarily built in the 14th century, with significant rebuilding in 1877 by architect William Eden Nesfield. The structure is made of flint with stone dressings and red tiles, featuring a west tower, south porch, nave, and chancel. The 14th-century tower has trefoil heads on each of its four bell openings and a 15th-century two-light west window. The south wall includes an isolated lancet, a two-light straight-headed perpendicular window, and a three-light perpendicular window. The perpendicular south porch has a four-centred arch and angle buttresses, with an 18th-century wall table at the midpoint. The chancel's south wall features one round-headed and one perpendicular straight-headed three-light window, while the east window is curvilinear with cusping from the 14th century. On the north nave wall, there is a north doorway, two two-light windows with cusped "Y" tracery, and one three-light straight-headed perpendicular window. Inside, there is a perpendicular tower arch, but no chancel arch. The nave roof, added in 1877, consists of closely set scissor-framed trusses. A perpendicular rood screen features elaborate double cusped tracery heads and a painted dado depicting six female saints and six theologian saints. The church also contains 17th-century communion rails and stalls designed by Nesfield.
Local climate
Church of St Giles receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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