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St Giles The Abbot

Farnborough, Greater London

Nave possibly C12 in origin

Architectural Features

Chancel C13 in origin

N chapel added C14

MATERIALS: Flint rubble with C17 and C19 brick dressings

EXTERIOR: The chancel was largely rebuilt in 1886, and has two lancets on the N and three on the S, with an additional lancet in the N organ chamber, partly based on the arrangement of the C13 chancel

Those in the N wall are C17 and have brick dressings and a brick mullion

There are heavy buttresses in C17 brick on the S side, and the shallow plinth on both sides also has a brick edging

The small N chapel has a two-light C15 N window with cusped lights

The W tower is of uncertain date, but may also have been rebuilt in the C17

The C19 chancel arch is in a C13 style and has small roll mouldings dying into the wall on both faces

The chancel E windows have roll mouldings, Purbeck marble shafts between the lights and C13 capitals on the sides

The W gallery is C17 in origin, and has a panelled front on slender, square columns

Of mid C17 date, it reuses much older timber

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Late C14 font, polygonal with quatrefoils and rosettes on the bowl and tracery panelling on the C19 stem

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