Church Of St Giles

The Church of St Giles is a parish church dating from the 15th century, with a chancel added by architect Phipson between 1866 and 1867. The church features a west tower, nave, chancel, and north and south aisles, along with a south porch. It is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, and the south wall of the porch is faced with ashlar. The roofs are made of lead.

The early 15th-century tower has four stages, with set-back and clasping buttresses on the top stage. The west door is flanked by statue niches, and above it is a five-light perpendicular window set within a recess. There is a blocked three-light ringing chamber window and tall four-light belfry windows featuring perpendicular tracery with cusped transoms. The tower is topped with a crenellated flushwork parapet and small corner turrets, along with a beacon cupola added in 1737.

The nave consists of five bays with three-light perpendicular windows. A two-storey porch is attached to the west end bay of the aisle, featuring an outer doorway with attached shafts and a two-centre arch. Above the door is a central window with a pointed arch and smaller flanking lights, accompanied by a shield frieze and a decorated parapet. Inside, there is a stone fan-vault. The chancel has three bays, a north aisle, and 19th-century Decorated windows. The tower arch leads into the chancel, which has a chancel arch flanked by six statue niches. The nave piers are composed of four shafts with smaller mouldings in between. The roof is a false hammer-beam design, with four arched braces forming a pointed-arch profile, and carved angels cutting through the braces at wall-plate level. Arched braces from the wall-posts frame the clerestory window arches. The church contains numerous wall monuments, including those for Thomas Churchman (1742) by Sir Henry Cheere, Sir Samuel Churchman (1781), and Philip Stannard (1747) by Thomas Rawlins.