Church of St Giles and churchyard tombs

The Church of St Giles is a Church of England building located on Southampton Street. This small medieval church was rebuilt in 1872 by J.P. St Aubyn in the Early English style, retaining only the 13th-century aisle walls and the Perpendicular west tower. The ashlar steeple was added in 1873. The church is faced with flint and has Bath stone dressings, along with a tiled roof. It features a three-bay aisled nave and a slight transept. The windows have Y tracery lancets, except for the belfry, which has plate tracery twin 2-light lancets, a three-light Perpendicular west window, decorated-type transept windows, and a geometric east window. The tower has skew joins, corner and side buttresses, and a pointed west door. There are traces of medieval walling on the south and west sides, and the church has a three-bay chancel with flanking chapels.

Inside, the chancel is richly designed in the Early English style, and there are Norman fragments in the tower, including a capital possibly from the Abbey. An early 16th-century brass commemorates John and Jane Bowyer, and there are several notable 18th-century memorial tablets, including a sculpted memorial to Harwood Awberry from 1748 by Peter Scheemakers.

The graveyard maintains much of its 19th-century atmosphere and contains several notable tombs. To the south-west, there are three chest tombs, with the closest to the church corner being the most impressive: an early 19th-century tomb for Thomas Patrick Sourdon, featuring tapering sides and a cross-gabled capping with corner antefixae. The other two tombs date from around 1840 and have fluted corners. To the north-west and east, there is another group of table and pyramidal-capped tombs, with the best being the tomb of William Granger from around 1840, which is similar to the Sourdon tomb and features incised corner piers. Also notable is the William Green and Woodard family vault, a late 18th-century chest tomb from around 1811 made of Portland stone, with a moulded plinth and oval panels on the front and back. Several tombs at the east end are aligned true east, differing slightly from the chancel's alignment.