Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. Church.
Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- cold-wall-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Giles, Church Lane, Wendlebury
- OS grid reference
- SP 558 197
- Coordinates
- 51.87311, -1.19013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Giles is a church located on Church Lane in Wendlebury. It dates back to the 13th century but was largely rebuilt in 1762 and altered and restored in 1902 by J.O. Scott. The building is constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble and random rubble, with ashlar dressings and a plain-tile roof. It consists of a nave, chancel, north transept, and a south-west porch.
The 18th-century chancel features shallow clasping buttresses that rise from a plinth, with east and south windows displaying Y-tracery. The nave has two similar windows on the south side and a larger window from 1902, which replaced the former south transept. Most windows retain medieval moulded jambs, although they have later heads and tracery. A 20th-century porch shelters a 15th-century doorway with carved spandrels. The north wall contains three arched blind windows, while the west wall has a blocked archway that once led to a tower.
The north transept, built of random rubble, features pairs of angle buttresses and a two-light late 13th-century east window with plate tracery. It is primarily from the 13th century but includes three late medieval single-light windows in its gable wall. Inside, the church has roofs from 1902, a 13th-century arched tomb recess in the transept, an 18th-century communion rail with turned balusters, 17th-century ledgers, 18th-century wall tablets, and a medieval font.
Local climate
Church of St Giles sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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