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St Giles

Standlake

Oxfordshire

Late C12, remodelled and transepts added in mid C13

Architectural Features

north aisle remodelled in early C14

C14 west tower

C15 clerestory to north

gabled C20 tile roof, and lead transept roofs

Chancel has mid C13 short clasping buttresses, and string course forming hoods over 3 grouped lancets to east

south side has 2 early C14 three-light windows, a blocked C15 four-light window above, mid C13 pointed chamfered door with hood, and C13 tomb recess with stiff-leaf capitals to slender shafts

north side has string course forming hoods over 2 mid C13 lancets flanking blocked early C14 curvilinear 3-light window blocked C12 round-headed door with hood and incised imposts and moulding

North transept has string course forming hoods over 2 mid C13 lancets to east and one to west

early C14 curvilinear 3-light north window

blocked late C13 archway to former (demolished) east chapel

South transept has C13 short corner and wall buttresses, a C15 two-light Perpendicular window set in blocked archway to former east chapel, early C14 three-light intersecting traceried south window and late C13 two-light trefoil-headed west window

South aisle has three 3-light trefoil-headed windows, late C19 south door and C14 porch with double-chamfered doorway, and C15 Perpendicular 4-light west window

C15 clerestory has partly restored C15 two-light cinquefoil-headed windows

C14 three-stage octagonal west tower: offset corner buttresses

Interior: C15 sedilia, under window, with carved arm rests

restored late C12 Transitional chancel arch

Mid C13 double-chamfered transept arches with stiff-leaf (south) and bell (north) capitals

South transept has cusped rere-arch to south and late C19 pulpit with canopy

4-bay late C12 Transitional south arcade: double-chamfered pointed arches, set on round piers to centre

4-bay north arcade rebuilt early C14, with double-chamfered arches set on octagonal piers with corbel head

Carved reset fragments at west end of south aisle, of 2 ecclesiastics and a Norman chevron moulding

Late C12 doorway to tower

Roofs: C15 aisle roofs with quartered and moulded beams

Fittings: pulpit, font cover, altar, bench ends and stalls carved by Harry Hems of Exeter in 1880's. Monuments: north aisle has pedimented stale-shaped wall tablet to Walter Strickland, d.1839, by J.J. Sanders, and draped wall tablet with urn to Frances Strickland, d.1836, also by Sanders

Stained glass: late C19 including work by Burlison and Grylls: in west window of south transept, including some C14 white foliage designs. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.776-778

National Monuments Record: Bodleian Library, Oxford, M.S. Top, Oxon, especially for early C19 drawings by Hinton and Buckler).

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