Architectural Features
Crenellated three stage tower, pinnacles and gargoyles, diagonal buttresses rising to string courses, two-light bell-opening, string course lancet, three-light west window with continuous hoodmould, deeply moulded west doorway, C19 double doors, stair turret with weather vane centre of south face
Recumbant effigy of mid C14 knight set into four-centred arch niche in south wall
Grecian-style white marble and slate tablet to Josiah Eastern of Hele, died 1848, and other members of the family signed by Williams, 30 Eastern Road, London, C19 brass in chancel to the Adair family of Heatherton Park (qv).
Fine early C18 pulpit carved in high relief from St Mary's, Taunton, Perpendicular style font of c1870.
Late C19 stone reredos, restored and figures of the evangelists designed by W.D Caröe added 1926.
Stained glass, West window by firm Burridge of Wellington
window in north aisle by Gerald Coles, 1967, in memory of Hugh Easton died 1965, artist in stained glass, and James Easton died 1871, engineer.
![Set into a 4-centred arch niche in the southern wall of the nave of [[[4318277]]] is this recumbent effigy of a mid C14th knight, it is thought that it is possibly the figure of Sir John de Meriet who died in 1391.](https://storage.googleapis.com/natbase-94192.firebasestorage.app/observations/P27pQHOF9FRxHV3xniseBoXaG4S2/1775238074621_4318318_9761278c.jpg)
In 1387 a chantry chapel was founded at St Giles by Sir John de Meriet. (Photograph in NMR).
Set into a 4-centred arch niche in the southern wall of the nave of [[[4318277]]] is this recumbent effigy of a mid C14th knight, it is thought that it is possibly the figure of Sir John de Meriet who died in 1391.