Church Of St Giles

The Church of St Giles is an Anglican parish church located on the north side of The Street in Lea. The west tower dates from the 15th century, while the rest of the church was built in 1878. It is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings and ashlar used for the copings and tower parapet, topped with clay tile roofs. The church features a nave and chancel combined into one, a west tower, a north aisle, and a south porch.

The fenestration includes single, two, and three-light windows in a 15th-century style with flat heads for the nave and chancel, and a prominent five-light east window. The north aisle has three-light windows in a 14th-century style with pointed heads, along with a doorway and buttresses that have set-offs. The three-stage tower is supported by diagonal buttresses with set-offs and has moulded string courses, a stair turret at the north-east corner, and an embattled parapet. The west face features a blocked doorway and a three-light pointed-arched window above it on the first stage, with an oblong opening on the second stage; there are also two-cusped-light bell openings with slate louvres on all sides. A sundial is mounted on the south-east buttress.

The gabled south porch has a pointed-arched entrance and an inner trefoil-cusped archway, leading to a plank door. Inside, there is an early English style five-bay north arcade and wagon roofs throughout. Notable fittings include a 15th-century font at the tower arch with an octagonal bowl on a tapered 19th-century stem, stained glass from 1878 in the chancel's south-east window, and a wall tablet on the north wall of the aisle dedicated to the Baker family from 1849. There is also a board to the left of the tower arch that records the 1878 restoration.