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St Giles

St Giles

Tydd St Giles

Cambridgeshire

Late C12 nave with C14 north and south aisles.

Architectural Features

C14 west doorway.

Above are three C14 niches with trefoil heads and ogee arches divided by small piers, set diagonally, with pointed finials.

Nave has original late C12 clerestory, now blocked, of four windows.

Above is the C15 or C16 clerestory of six windows, each of two cinquefoil lights in a square head.

Beast gargoyles to C15 or C16 cornice above clerestory.

Three C14 windows of three trefoil lights with decorated tracery in four- centred arches, and two late C14 or C15 windows, also of three trefoil lights but with vertical tracery.

North aisle, mainly C14.

Late C13 or early C14.

North and south arcades, late C12 and of six bays.

Chancel arch C14, two-centred and of hollow and roll moulding, the responds have half-round attached columns with foliate capitals and moulded bases and are flanked by two similar smaller attached shafts or columns.

Piscina, C14, in south wall of south chapel.

Font, C15, hexagonal bowl and stem on double stepped base.

Bowl carved with heraldic devices.

One of the columns in the nave arcade is carved with a C14 inscription.