Church of St Giles

The Church of St Giles is a church dating from the 13th century, with significant alterations and rebuilding in the 14th, 16th and 1871-73 by Richard Norman Shaw. It is constructed of rubble limestone with gritstone dressings and quoins, featuring lead roofs with coped gables and plain parapets, and a stone slate roof to the porch. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with aisles, a south porch, and a chancel.

The three-stage west tower has a low attached building to the north. The west face features a trefoiled ogee lancet window and two-light Perpendicular bell openings. The south face has two recessed and chamfered two-light mullioned bell openings, with a single light opening above obscured by a clock face. The north face mirrors the south, also with a two-light opening and a single light above. The east face incorporates a single light and a clock face. A crenellated parapet tops the tower, punctuated by four crocketed pinnacles. The tower top was rebuilt in 1872-73.

The nave and clerestory have round-headed windows of 16th or 17th century style. The clerestory contains five pairs of windows, and the south aisle has a two-light, a four-light, and a two-light window. The north aisle features two single and a pair of 13th-century lancet windows. The gabled south porch has a 13th-century entrance with a double-chamfered arch, chamfered responds, and moulded imposts. A single chamfered south door is set within a hoodmould.

The chancel's south side has a low priest’s doorway flanked by deeply set two-light windows with flat heads and cusped ogee tracery. A similar window is situated on the north side. The east window is a five-light design with panel tracery. The chancel windows and a north vestry were designed by Norman Shaw.

The interior features six-bay arcades characterized by octagonal piers, abaci, and double-chamfered arches. A similar 19th-century chancel arch displays nailhead detailing on the abaci. A double-chamfered tower arch blends into the imposts. The building retains exceptionally well-preserved roofs from the 15th or early 16th century in the nave, aisles, and chancel. Common-rafter roofs in the nave and chancel showcase arched braces, moulded principal rafters and purlins with carved bosses at the intersections. The lean-to aisle roofs also feature moulded beams and bosses. A Perpendicular parclose screen is located within the south aisle.

Pews, choir stalls, and the organ case are all designed by Shaw. A marble pulpit and an octagonal font with a cover are also attributed to Shaw. Stained glass includes an east window from 1873 and north aisle windows by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Three south aisle windows, dated 1897, 1908, and 1907, were designed by Shaw and executed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, alongside another south aisle window from 1887. A brass to Rowland Eyre, dated 1624, is located in the South Chapel. An eagle lectern of brass is dated 1892. Within the nave are two hatchments each side of the chancel arch and three above the tower arch. Two charity boards dated 1838 are situated at the west end of the south aisle.