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St Giles

Architectural Features

Nave late C14/early C15

Tower mid C15

C15 plank and batten door to stair turret

Plain C16 roof to N aisle and chapel, chamfered beams, painted in chapel

W end of nave: 2 C16 linenfold bench ends with moulded capping used as model for Street's seating

C13/C14 font:plain square bowl, octagonal stem with traceried panels on 4 sides, 4 ringed shafts also support bowl.Gilt font cover by N. Comper 1938.C13/C14 hutch type chest with foliate carved feet and remains of panelled ornament, rosettes in cusped rails

Early C16 screen to N chapel:10 bays to aisle and 16 to chancel, closed base, open panels above with steeply gabled crocketed and cusped heads

2 entrances with carved ogee heads and Frowyk's leopard's head ornament

Rood screen, lectern and pulpit by Street

Monuments: Chancel N wall to H.Frowyk the Elder c.1540

Effigy on chest, armoured figure with head on helmet, feet on lion

Chancel S wall:C17 wall slabs

Nave S wall: early C17 wall slab with sarcophagus below an enriched panel with a recessed skull in a strapwork cartouche.Aedicular C18 slab above

Brasses in chancel, N chapel, nave and tower floors

Glass:kneeling figures in civil costume in N aisle windows and W window of N chapel, inscribed date 1526.