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St Giles

Architectural Features

C14, restored C17/C16 and 1893 (£150).

West door with triple hollow chamfered surround, and large C14 3 light west window with intersecting and cusped tracery

Chancel west bay with single lancet to south, and blocked 2 bay arcade to north, the eastern bays rebuilt with red brick on medieval flint and ragstone base, with C17 2 light mullioned brick windows, and C19 east traceried window.

Interior: C12 nave north arcade, 4 bays with unmoulded round arches, with 2 square and 1 round pier, the latter with spurred base and scalloped capital

south arcade with blocked round arch to west, and 2 chamfered and pointed C13 arches and square pier.

Large buttress separates the arcade from the tower arch with C14 double chamfered arch on moulded octagonal corbels.

Fittings: early C16 rood screen of 5 bays with cusped panels, and cusped tracery with crenellated and sloping transoms and attached shafts with crenellated caps.

Seven sided C17 pulpit with incised lozenge decoration and 2 attached wrought iron candle brackets.

Fragmentary C14 St.Christopher scene painted on north wall of nave