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St Giles

St Giles

Great Coxwell

Oxfordshire

Originally a C13 plan, altered and enlarged in the C15 and restored in 1882

Architectural Features

Perpendicular tower of three storeys with plain string courses, two-light cusped bell openings under flat heads with dripstones, a moulded string to upper storey with gargoyles and an embattled parapet

Apart from the C19 window these are C14 and C15

East window of three stepped pointed-trefoiled lights under a pointed arch of the late C13

On the west end of the nave is a decayed C13 sanctus bellcote

Gabled, stone tiled, timber-faced porch leads to the north doorway with a plain pointed arch and hoodmould and an early C15 door with large scale tracery with feathered cusping

Inside, a plainly moulded C15 arch to the tower, deep splays to the windows and a mid C13 chancel arch on half shafts

Circa 1500 brass to William Morys in nave

18-inch figure, with three small figures below

In the east window clear glass panes with engraved shields of 1792 by Eginton

Late C17 communion rail with flat balusters of dumb-bell outline and a Jacobean pulpit with strapwork in the nave behind which are rood stairs.