St Giles

MATERIALS: ashlar local red sandstone, tile roofs.

The nave is Tudor-Gothic style.

The north wall was re-faced in 1887 and has restored C16 one-light and two two-light windows.

The shallow-projecting north chapel is Tudor Gothic and has two square-headed three-light windows with cusped lights.

INTERIOR: The tower arch is C14 with polygonal responds.

Shallow niches in the north wall were associated with a former wall painting of George and the Dragon discovered in 1887: they may have held lit tapers that represented fire from the dragon's mouth.

Floors are tiled, with decorative tiles in the chancel by Godwin of Lugwardine copied from medieval tiles in the chapel, and with parquet floors below pews.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The slender Gothic font with octagonal bowl was remodelled in 1899, but is probably C18 in origin.

The Caen stone pulpit has polished Irish red marble shafts and blind tracery.

It is flanked by three niches with figures of martyrs, designed by W.D Caröe and made by Nathaniel Hitch in 1910.

The principal memorial is an incised grave slab of Nicholas Gravinor , now on the east wall of the north chapel, showing a tonsured priest who began the rebuilding of the church.

There are fragments of C16 stained glass in the chapel north west window.

Most of the stained glass is by A.J Dix of London and made between 1887 and 1920.

In 1904 he also embellished the earlier east window by Gibbs & Howard In the north chapel is SS Columba, Chad and Augustine In the nave are two war-memorial windows by Dix , showing the last communion before battle, and a Roman centurion with Joshua, leader of Israel.

Another war-memorial window, by H. Doyle , shows an RAF pilot, Flying Officer Clement Royds , carried up to heaven from his burning fighter.

HISTORY: There is some evidence of a C12-C13 church in the nave west wall,

the tower arch shows that a tower was added in the C14.

Pearson kept the Tudor-Gothic style for the nave but chose to build the chancel and vestry in Early-English style.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Church of St Giles, Haughton, is listed Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * For the extent and quality of its medieval fabric in the nave, north chapel and especially the fine west tower. * It retains a significant C16 memorial, and a good sequence of stained glass. * The church was well restored in 1887 by J.L Pearson, one of the most respected Gothic-revival architects. * It retains good interior detail of the late C19 and early C20, including reredos and stained glass.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register.