Church of St Giles

The Church of St Giles is a parish church originally dating from the 13th century, with alterations and enlargement in the 15th century and a restoration in 1882. It is constructed of rubble stone with stone dressings, and has cement render to the south wall of the nave and tower. The roof is gabled and stone tiled. The church comprises a two-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, a north porch, and a west tower.

The three-storey Perpendicular tower has plain string courses and two-light cusped bell openings with flat heads and dripstones. A moulded string sits above the upper storey with gargoyles and an embattled parapet. The west window has three cusped lights under a pointed head. The south wall of the nave has a sequence of flat-headed windows of three and two cusped lights, one smaller two-light window of the 19th century, and another window of three cusped lights. These windows, except for the 19th-century example, are 14th and 15th century. The north wall of the nave retains two Early English lancet windows. The chancel's south wall was rebuilt around 1290 and incorporates an Early English lancet, a plainly moulded priest’s door, and a Decorated two-cusped-light window under a pointed head. The chancel north wall has two Early English lancet windows. The east window features three stepped pointed-trefoiled lights under a pointed arch dating to the late 13th century. A decayed 13th-century sanctus bellcote stands on the west end of the nave. The gabled, stone-tiled, timber-faced porch leads to the north doorway, which has a plain pointed arch, a hoodmould, and an early 15th-century door with large-scale tracery and feathered cusping.

Inside, the church has a plainly moulded 15th-century arch to the tower, deep window splays, and a mid-13th century chancel arch supported on half shafts. The chancel includes a cusped-headed piscina on the south wall, a trefoil-headed niche behind the altar flanked by two lancet niches, and rectangular niches below. The roofs are open trussed-rafter designs with semi-circular bracing, restored in the 19th century. A brass dating from around 1500 depicts William Morys in the nave, with three smaller figures below; he is recorded as having been ‘sometime farmer of Coxsell’. Several late 18th-century mural tablets are also present. The east window contains clear glass panes with engraved shields, dating to 1792 and made by Eginton. A late 17th-century communion rail with flat balusters of a dumb-bell outline is located alongside a Jacobean pulpit with strapwork, with rood stairs positioned behind it.