St Giles

The C13 tower of 3 stages with 4 string courses, is set on a plinth and was encased in ashlar in the 1880s.

It has 2 buttresses, each having at the set off point a small crocketed triangular blind arch with carved heads as label stops.

The tower is embattled with pinnacles and has guttering with gargoyles under.

There is a c.1400 crocketed spire with one tier of crocketed lucarnes.

The ashlar C12 porch, which is one window in from the west, has a coped gable with ornate ridge cross with a single C19 buttress either side, decorated with a colonnette with foliate decoration in place of a capital.

Above the door is an arched niche with inner order of engaged colonnettes and scalloped capitals, this contains a late C12 figure of a saint in poor condition, with blind arcading over.

The C12 ashlar porch is enclosed by an ashlar and slate roofed C20 extension.

The north porch has a C15 inner wicket door with elaborate blind tracery with an effigy of the virgin and child.

The C14 south arcade has label stops and foliate decorated capitals.

The north arcade is C13.

The double chamfered arch with hood mould and label stops separating nave and chancel has a restored C15 traceried screen under, with a carved C16 figure of St. Francis to the west and to the east a C15 carved figure of the Virgin and Child.

3 of the chancel windows have fragments of C14

C15 coloured glass.

There are a number of C15 pews with blind tracery and elaborate poppyheads.

The C15 pulpit has blind tracery.

The octagonal font is C14 and has ballflower ornament on its shaft.

On the east wall of the chancel is a finely carved monument to Mary Sikes, c.1828 by Willson, Bath Place, Fitzroy Square, London.

This comprises 2 figures on the top of a sarcophagus, one kneeling, with urn between.

There is also a finely carved monument to Joseph and Jane Sikes c.1778, having decorated tablet with open pediment over, supporting at its edges 2 urns.

The chancel south wall has a monument in the form of a sarcophagus with urn over c.1817 to Robert Harvey.

On the chancel north wall is a finely carved monument of c.1812 to Matthew Harvey.

On the south aisle wall is a small brass c.1660 to Anna and Francis Leek.

There is also a monument to Sarah and Christopher Hancer c.1821, consisting of an urn placed on top of a pier, with a further monument to William Hancer, c.1798.