Description

TG 93 NW BARSHAM WALSINGHAM ROAD
2/15 (west side)
Houghton St Giles

6.3.59 Church of St Giles

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Parish church. Largely C14 fabric rebuilt 1877 by William Eden Nesfield, architect.
Flint with stone dressings and red tiles. West tower, south porch, nave and chancel.
C14 tower with trefoil heads to each of 4 bell openings, with C15 2-light west
window. South wall with an isolated lancet, a 2-light straight-headed perpendicular
window and one 3-light perpendicular window; perpendicular south porch with
four-centred arch and angle buttresses; wall table C18 on mid-point of wall; chancel
south wall with one round-headed and one perpendicular straight-headed 3-light
window. East window Curvilinear with cusping C14. North nave wall: north doorway,
two 2-light cusped "Y" tracery windows and one 3-light straight-headed perpendicular
window. Interior: perpendicular tower arch, no chancel arch. Nave roof of 1877
scissor-framed trusses closely set together. Perpendicular Rood Screen with elaborate
double cusped tracery heads and painted dado with six female saints and six theologian
saints. C17 Communion rails, Nesfield stalls.

Listing NGR: TF9237235362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536798

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)