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St Giles

St Giles

Hooke

Dorset

C15 nave.

Architectural Features

Early C16 south chapel.

Clay-tile roofs of fish-scale shape.

North wall has 2 C15 windows, both of 3 cinquefoiled lights in square heads, western has a label with head-stops.

West wall has a C15 doorway with moulded jambs, 4-centred arch in a square head, with a label and head-stops of a bishop and a king, traceried spandrels with paterae.

The C15 south doorway has chamfered jambs and 2-centred head.

The font is decorated with quatrefoils and six-cornered stars.  The writing above the recess has been picked out in red since the last photograph was taken.
Charity boxes are stacked by the side.

Fittings: Font, unusual, elongated hexagonal bowl, set against the wall, the outer faces with panels enclosing 6-pointed figures, or quatrefoiled panels enclosing paterae, C15.

The font is decorated with quatrefoils and six-cornered stars. The writing above the recess has been picked out in red since the last photograph was taken. Charity boxes are stacked by the side.

© Sarah Smith

Niches: North wall of nave, 3-sided canopy with crocketed heads and spine, angel-corbel.

East splay of north-west window, carved bracket.

Brass: nave north wall to Edmond Semar 1523-4, inscription only. (RCHM Dorset I, p125(1))