Church Of St Giles

The Church of St Giles is a church dating from the late 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It was restored in 1852 by H.J. Underwood. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, a tower and chancel in ashlar, and imitation stone slate and sheet metal roofs. The church comprises a four-bay nave with a chancel, a south transept, a south aisle and porch, a west tower, and a vestry and organ chamber opposite the transept. The chancel was rebuilt in 1840, featuring two square-headed windows on each side (some reportedly reused) and a three-light east window with Perpendicular-style tracery. The 13th-century south transept has a two-light south window with plate tracery and a trefoil-headed light to the east. The parapetted nave has projecting buttresses and a central porch sheltering a circa 1200 oak door with dog gates. A 19th-century window is located to the left. The 15th-century crenellated tower features a four-centre arched west doorway with recessed spandrels and a label with lozenge stops. Above the doorway is a three-light traceried window, and to the south, a stair turret. Small arched belfry openings are set within rectangular surrounds. The north wall of the nave and vestry, dating from 1852, are in the Geometrical Decorated style.

Internally, the transitional nave arcade has masonry piers with minimal moulded imposts; the western arch was rebuilt as a half arch. The Perpendicular tower arch is finely moulded and features large, amusing figures at the ends of the hood mould. All roofs are 19th-century replacements. The furnishings are primarily 19th century, with the exception of a fine Jacobean hexagonal pulpit with inlaid pictorial panels featuring perspective arches. Medieval stained glass includes two figures from around 1280, as well as numerous 15th and 16th-century figures and fragments. A painted window north of the nave, dating from 1740, is attributed to Price of York. Monuments include a brass, an oval monument from around 1690 with a frame of fruit and flowers, and a late Baroque monument of 1770 to James Salisbury, featuring scrolls and cherubs.