Former Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. Church. 1 related planning application.

Former Church of St Giles

WRENN ID
old-rubblework-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1958
Type
Church
Address
Former Church of St Giles, Pinkham Hill, Knowle St. Giles, TA20 4BB
OS grid reference
ST 350 112
Coordinates
50.89737, -2.92422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Church of St Giles is an Anglican parish church that is currently being converted into a house as of September 1986. It has 20th-century origins but was completely rebuilt, with the nave constructed around 1840 by Lewis Vulliamy and the chancel completed in about 1843, likely by J.M. Allen, who was the curate-in-charge. The building features stone ashlar and Welsh slate roofs between coped gables, with the chancel showcasing an ornamental clay tiled ridge and a former two-bell turret at the west end.

The church has a two-unit plan. The chancel is designed in a style reminiscent of the 13th and 14th centuries, complete with a plinth, cill course, and corner buttresses. It has a triple lancet window on the east side and cusped lancet windows on the north side, along with a single and a double cusped lancet on the south side, all lacking labels. The northeast corner vestry includes a pointed-arched east doorway with a curl-stop label, accessed by five steps, and three cusped lancets in the north wall.

The nave consists of five bays, featuring a plinth, bay and corner buttresses, and one plain lancet window in each bay, with two additional lancets in the west gable separated by a buttress. The south porch is adorned with angled corner buttresses and a 14th-century style outer arch that has side shifts and dogtooth ornamentation, along with a label that features headstops and a moulded inner arch.

Inside, the chancel boasts an exposed rafter and scissor truss ceiling, side shafts to the window reveals, a sedilia in the south wall, and a stone credence shelf set in a cinquefoil-cusped recess in the north wall. There is a small Gothic-style fireplace in the corner of the vestry, which leads to a finely decorated stone oriel pulpit on the east wall of the nave. The nave has a hammerbeam truss roof. Although many interior details have been removed, it is understood that the aforementioned features are to be preserved during the conversion process.

Local climate

Former Church of St Giles receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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