Church Of St Giles

The Church of St. Giles is a medieval church that was rebuilt between 1767 and 1772 for Reverend Thomas Hinds and restored in 1860 by Reverend F.C. Hingeston. It is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar quoins, and features coursed limestone rubble on the north wall and west tower. The church has a gabled stone slate roof and consists of a nave, chancel, and west tower. The east window is designed in a 13th-century style with graduated lancets. The two-bay side walls are adorned with a classical moulded cornice and pointed lancets, and there is a mid-19th-century pointed arched chamfered doorway with a plank door, which has a hood mould above it.

The medieval west tower is two stories high and includes a mid-19th-century Norman-style west doorway decorated with nailhead motifs. The tower features 18th-century semi-circular arched belfry windows with key and impost blocks, a crenellated parapet, and a pyramidal roof topped with a large ball finial and a wrought-iron weathervane.

Inside, the church has a mid-18th-century panelled pulpit, mid-19th-century pews, and a mid-18th-century gallery that includes a panelled font set on a slender octagonal shaft. The ceiling is also mid-18th century, featuring plasterwork with a moulded cornice, square panels, and a central roundel.

Monuments within the church include a white marble architectural monument on the south wall dedicated to Thomas Hindes, who died in 1718, and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1761. There are also two 20th-century wall tablets in an architectural frame. On the north side, there is an architectural wall monument to Reverend Thomas Hindes, who died in 1768, featuring a shield in a broken pediment and fluted pilasters. A notable coloured architectural monument commemorates Vincent Barry, who died in 1615, along with his wife and daughter Lady Katherine, who died in 1663. This monument includes three shields above an inscription, flanked by putti, and features Corinthian columns beside figures kneeling at prayer desks, with children below, all set in a segmental-arched recess with rosettes.

The church is situated in an isolated location within fields, near the site of a deserted medieval village to the south.