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St Giles

St Giles

Medbourne

Leicestershire

C13-C15 with C17 S porch, chancel of 1876 and restored 188O-1.

Architectural Features

Tower of C13 (lower part)

C15 (upper part) and of 3 stages with setback buttresses, W door, window, SW stair with 1-lights, S 1-light, 4 2-light bell openings, clock faces to E and S, and battlements.

N transept now vestry/meeting room, probably altered C17, with 3-light stone mullion windows (bases of shafts remain ).

Chancel has 3 N windows, 2 S windows, sedilia and 2 niches, and E window with Geometric tracery filled with stained glass of 1875.

S transept of late C13 has 3 bay arcade with chamfered and moulded arches on octagonal piers and above the responds 2 carved figures to N and figure to S. Niche, piscina and triple sedilia.

S transept has C19 roof similar to nave, and the transept E aisle a mostly restored C15 roof.

Large transept window with restored Curvilinear tracery and N window with C20 stained glass.

Early C14 S doorway with ballflower decoration.

C17 S porch with rounded arch and pair of wooden gates.

C13 round font with 4 shafts at corners.

C19 base and probably C17 octagonal bell-shape wooden cover.

Fine marble wall monument to Edward Conyers, died 1701.

Painted Royal Arms of 1778.