Church Of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Church.
Church Of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- idle-lintel-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST03NW OLD CLEEVE CP LEIGHLAND CHAPEL
4/80 Church of St Giles
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GV II II
Parish church. 1861-2 on site of earlier building. Architect C E Giles. Red sandstone random rubble, Bath stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, decorative ridge tiles. Plan: 4 bay nave, South porch, West bell-cote, chancel, North vestry. Plain Geometrical style. Single storey bell-cast gabled porch, coped verges and kneelers, string course, arched entrance, 2 pairs of lancets and single sone to right, large stepped buttress, 2 lancets to chancel, 3-light East window, heated vestry on North front, 4 pairs of lancets to nave with central stepped buttress, 2-light West window flanked by buttresses, gabled ashlar bell-cote. Interior: rendered. Chancel: scissor truss roof. Foliage decorated capitals to responds of pointed chancel arch. Similar foliage decoration to pulpit and spandrels of reredos. East window dated 1889. Contemporary fittings included 2 parrafin lamps and a corona for candles. Wrought iron screens, late C20 by Rachel Recketts. Medieval tiles inlaid round font. (VCH Somerset, Vol 5, forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST0320836540
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