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
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Giles, Old Cleeve, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 032 365
- Coordinates
- 51.11994, -3.38435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Giles is a parish church built between 1861 and 1862 on the site of an earlier building, designed by architect C E Giles. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble with Bath stone dressings, featuring slate roofs, coped verges, and decorative ridge tiles. The church has a plan that includes a four-bay nave, a south porch, a west bell-cote, a chancel, and a north vestry. It is designed in a plain Geometrical style, with a single-storey bell-cast gabled porch that has coped verges and kneelers, a string course, an arched entrance, and two pairs of lancet windows with a single stone window to the right. There is a large stepped buttress and two lancets on the chancel, along with a three-light east window. The north front features a heated vestry and four pairs of lancets in the nave, with a central stepped buttress and a two-light west window flanked by buttresses. The gabled ashlar bell-cote adds to the exterior.
Inside, the church is rendered, with the chancel featuring a scissor truss roof. The responds of the pointed chancel arch have foliage-decorated capitals, and similar foliage decoration can be found on the pulpit and the spandrels of the reredos. The east window is dated 1889. Contemporary fittings include two paraffin lamps and a corona for candles, along with wrought iron screens created in the late 20th century by Rachel Recketts. Medieval tiles are inlaid around the font.
Local climate
Church of St Giles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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