Architectural Features
C13 south nave arcade
tower parapet of 1656.
Slate roofs with ridge tiles.
C11 round-headed west door with quoins, chamfered imposts and restored chamfered hoodmould
South side has an inserted pointed C13 doorway of 2 orders beneath a hoodmould with weathered headstops, the outer order with nook-shafts and filleted arch, the inner order chamfered.
Above this, a blocked pointed C13 arch, apparently C13 but incorporating chamfered ironstone imposts
voussoirs from an C11-style round arch.
Above, an C11 keyhole window with a monolithic head, cut by a drip course to a former addition south of the tower.
Stepped-in top stage with belfry openings of twin round arches with monolithic heads, chamfered imposts and mid-wall shafts with ornate carved capitals with volutes and leaves (similar to Sompting, Essex).
INTERIOR: chancel with C19 pointed double-chamfered chancel arch with hoodmould and carved stops, the inner order on corbelled wall shafts
Nave: south arcade of double-chamfered arches with quatrefoil pier and corbelled responds with carved head corbel to east, knotted cable to west.
Tall C11 tower arch of 2 plain orders with chamfered base and imposts
another inscribed 1343 is reset below west window, brought from grounds of Scartho Hall.
East window stained glass by AK Nicholson of Westminster.
Norman tub font with cable-moulded rim on a 1921 shafted base.
TA2606 : St Giles' Church, Scartho, Font
FITTINGS: include C19 and C20 wooden pews, pulpit, altar rails etc. MONUMENTS: include a wall tablet to Elizabeth Howe of 1851 with carved shield.
Glass case containing C15 Nottingham alabaster figure carvings found at Scartho in 1928, originally part of a reredos, with traces of paint and gilt.
The figures represent the Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration, Crucifixion, Assumption, St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist.