The Parish Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. A Victorian Church.
The Parish Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- rooted-stone-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Parish Church of St Giles, the Street, Graffham, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 928 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94277, -0.6795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building located in Graffham. It features a chancel with a vestry to the north and a south chapel, a nave with aisles, and a west tower topped with a broached shingled spire. The two westernmost arches of the nave arcade date back to the 12th century. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1875 in memory of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, who served as Bishop of Winchester and resided at Lavington Park in the nearby parish of East Lavington from 1845 to 1873. The architect for this restoration was G E Street, and the tower was added in 1887. Notably, Bishop Wilberforce's brother-in-law, Archdeacon Henry Edward Manning, who later became a Cardinal, was the Rector of this parish alongside East Lavington from 1833 to 1851.
Local climate
The Parish Church of St Giles receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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