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St Giles

St Giles

Elkesley

Nottinghamshire

SK 67 NE ELKESLEY HIGH STREET (south side) 2/41 Church of St. Giles 1.2.67 G.V. I Parish church. c.1300, C14, C15, C19, restored 1845.

Architectural Features

The C14 buttressed tower of 4 stages with bands at the junctures of the top 2 stages is set on a plinth and is embattled with single pinnacles at the angles.

The south side has a C15 cavetto moulded Tudor arched doorway with heavily panelled wooden door.

In the apex is the date 1612 flanked by single Tudor roses.

There is a hood mould over with decorative label stops and blind carved spandrels.

The north wall has 3 recut C15 windows each with 2 ogee arched and cusped lights under a flat arch with hood mould and label stops.

The chancel is set on a plinth and has in the north wall a single c.1300 lancet with hood mould

to the left a single C15 2 light window with cusped panel tracery under a flat arch with a hood mould.

The C14 arched east window has 3 lights,intersecting tracery, hood mould and label stops.

To the left is the ashlar and tile diagonally buttressed C19 porch.

To the left of the porch the south wall is set on a plinth, there is a single arched window with 2 arched lights and hood mould, a headstone to Francis Bradley 1784 and further left 3 large C14 arched windows each with 3 arched and cusped lights, hood mould and label stops.

The 3 bay C14 north aisle arcade with octagonal columns and responds, moulded capitals and double chamfered arches is now blocked with a doorway with panelled door in the western most bay.

There are 2 C17 chairs with carved backs and a large C17 chest with decoratively carved panels.

The pulpit has open arched panels, there is a single elaborately carved C17 bench.

The nave roof has C15 bosses, the chancel roof is inscribed "D.N.I.R. 1836 R.W.H.V." In the south chancel is a monument to Catherine Sharpe, 1764, by Ant.

Ince and in the north chancel a monument to Edward and John Buckles, Mansfield.

This is rectangular with decoratively carved sides and an angel on the crown.