Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Church.
Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chimney-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Giles, Chiltern View, Tetsworth
- OS grid reference
- SP 685 015
- Coordinates
- 51.70885, -1.00859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Giles is a church built around 1855 by J. Billing of Reading. It features coursed squared stone and has an old plain-tile roof covering the nave, aisle, chancel, and vestry, along with a stone tower. The church has a 5-bay nave with a south aisle, a 2-bay chancel, a tower on the south side, and a vestry on the north side, all designed in the Early English style.
The tower has a 2-centre arched doorway at its base with double-leaf plank doors and lancet windows throughout. It consists of three stages with angle buttresses and paired louvred lancet openings at the third stage, topped by a broach spire. Inside, the chancel features a 2-bay braced collar-truss roof with king-posts, while the nave has a 5-bay arch-braced scissor-truss roof and the aisle has a lean-to roof.
Notable interior elements include painted commandments on the reredos, a 2-centred chancel arch supported by half-columns, a wooden pulpit on a stone plinth, and a 19th-century stone 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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