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St Giles

St Giles

Ashtead

Surrey

Early C12 nave (extended westwards in early C15), C13 chancel, early C15 west tower

Architectural Features

Mostly flint, with some Roman tiles included, some C19 red brick, limestone and sandstone dressings, stone slate roof

Interior: C19 scissor-braced roofs in nave and transept, C19 wagon-roof in chancel, all elaborately carved

C16 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels

C16 Flemish east window (attributed to Lambert Lombard of Liege), formerly in the abbey of Herckenrode and presented to this church in 1818

numerous wall monuments in the chancel, including: 2 small lettered brasses to Dorothea Quinnella (d.1640) and John Browne (d.1590) "Sergeant of Her Majesties Wood Yeard"

Diana, Lady Dudley and Ward (d.1709) - carved aedicule with crest

and in the nave, a large pedimented monument to Lady Diana Fielding (d.1733), with a bust in a circular recess