St Giles (church Of England)

Nave restored and chancel and S porch rebuilt 1859 by Baillie & Co.. Flint rubble with stone dressings, remains of external plaster on tower butting up to quoins, thin red brick to arcade and external walls of N aisle and N chapel, and steep old red tile roofs

George and dated by a recorded brass to 1532

C15 tall chancel arch of 2 moulded orders, the inner only on engaged shafts with moulded caps and bases

Large 2-centred brick arch opening into N chapel of 2 double hollow-chamfered orders with octagonal responds and chamfered capitals closed by an elaborate early C17 carved and pierced oak panelled screen with arched double door, arcaded top and grotesque figures interrupting a dentilled entablature with swelled frieze

The nave has C19 open timber roof, S wall features, and panelled pulpit and pews

Grouped lancet windows, one to light pulpit at E, single window to E of porch and similar window at W of 2-centred arched S door

3 bay C16 N arcade of brick, probably originally plastered but now colour-washed red and tuck pointed with narrow black joints

S side of tall C17 panelled box pews in N aisle block the middle and E arches of arcade

Tall C15 tower arch of 2 orders, only the inner carried on half-octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases

Gargoyle to parapet base-course

Continuous N brick range of N aisle and N chapel of 1532 has moulded external plinth offset and eaves course, diagonal corner buttresses with stone watertables, canted brick projection for full height at W end, plastered gable triangles, 2 2-light C15 traceried stone windows probably reset from nave at W and W end of N wall, 4 brick-traceried 3-light windows on N with heavy moulded hoodmoulds and lozenge shaped terminals, more elaborate 3-light brick E window with cinquefoil lights and six small lights in the head under a Tudor arch with hoodmould

Early C17 classical stone N doorway with round head, moulded square surround and full entablature

An elaborately carved early C17 arcaded screen with entablature separates the chapel, the single door being offset to N to accomodate the former box pews, the carved panelled sides of which now form a dado at the W end of the aisle

Plainer C17 panelling as original dado along N wall

In 2 of N windows of aisle are 8 panels of mid C16 Flemish stained glass

Monuments: George Canon d.1532 (upper half missing) on W wall of N chapel

Margaret Plumbe d.1575 a demi figure with 4 shields on stone panel with moulded surround in chancel

Sir William Goulston d.1687 a large wall monument in chapel with inscription on gilt tasselled drape above Baroque gadrooned base supported by deathsheads and cherubs

Full entablature with urn of black and white between reclining figures on swans neck pediment

undecipherable fine early C18 wall monument to S of chapel alter with black panel framed in fruit festooned Corithian pilasters supporting a broken pediment with fresco painted achievement and heavy swags on surrounding plastered wall

wall monument in N aisle to Brabazon Ellis d.1780 with draped urn and achievement on grey marble cenatoph over a grey marble surround to white marble tablet

Figure carved in oval frame on tooled based

Fittings: mid C19 communion rail, lectern, pulpit and seats

Chapel alter frontal of wood with blind C14 tracery

C19 screen to tower arch carefully copying early C17 screens to N chapel

Some moulded C17 panels incorporated in C19 pews

A medieval church of outstanding interest for its brick N aisle and N chapel of 1532 and the C16 stained glass, monuments and C17 carved woodwork.