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St Giles

Oreton

Shropshire

254711 Farlow Church of St Giles II 09-MAR-1970 Parish church of 1857-1858 by Robert Griffiths, incorporating font and C12 doorway from a former church.

Architectural Features

Tile roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods.

EXTERIOR: A parish church in simple C19 Gothic style, but retaining part of the Norman doorway of an older church.

This has C19 nook shafts and block capitals, but C12 arch with chevrons to the extrados and intrados, and intersecting arcs to the label.

Where visible, the nave floor is red-and-black diaper tiles, with raised wooden floors below the pews, and in the chancel are red and cream tiles.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The Norman tub font is plain.

The polygonal stone pulpit, post 1897, has marble shafts to niches with figures including St. Giles.

The arch over a Norman doorway and the font were brought from the old church.

SOURCES: Newman, J and Pevsner, N, the Buildings of England: Shropshire , 268-69 REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Giles, Farlow, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a complete small 1850's church which has undergone little subsequent alteration. * It has medieval features of interest in the form of the Norman font and doorway arch.