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Chideock Parish Church (St Giles)

Chideock Parish Church (st Giles)

North Chideock

Dorset

C14, C15, major 1880 restoration by Crickmay.

Architectural Features

Coursed Lias stone masonry with ashlar dressings, plain tile roof with cresting, stone gable copings to chancel and east end with crosses over.

Small carved gargoyles at the main divisions.

Flush foliage carving in the spandrels, no label.

Crenellations with gargoyles.

Interior: nave with 4-bay south arcade, later C15.

North chapel has an intersecting tracery early C14 window in north face.

Fittings: Font, c.1500, thick octagonal panelled stem over chamfered plinth, octagonal bowl with 2 quatrefoils-in-circle sunk in each side.

Cover: wood, pyramidal, with a solidfinial, C17.

Arundell Tomb, South chapel, Purbeck marble, early C17.

3 painted shields replace the original brass. indents.

Two C13 paintings of the Church and Street, showing medieval chancel.

Pulpit, 1880, hexagonal on a trumpet-stem, with panelled sides.