Description

NY 87 NE BIRTLEY BIRTLEY VILLAGE

Church of St. Giles
9/15
II*
10.11.51

Parish church. C12 restored 1884. Dressed stone and random rubble. Welsh
slate roof. Nave, chancel, west porch and south-west tower. Chancel north
wall and nave masonry is C12. Most other external features Victorian including
west porch with pointed-arched doorway, multifoil rose window in west gable,
and south-west tower which is a square vestry on ground floor, becoming octagonal
with lancet bell openings and short octagonal spire.

3-bay nave has 3-light stepped cusped lancets on south side. Nave and chancel
north walls blank. Three plain stepped lancets on chancel south side. East
window is 3 stepped lancets under hoodmoulds.

Blocked priest's door and north door, probably early C17, are square-headed
with chamfered surround.

Interior has C12 unmoulded chancel arch on plain chamfered imposts. Pointed
arch to blocked priest's door. East window has shafts and shaft rings.
Inscribed stone on chancel north wall, C8, with a cross and letters ORPE.
Several medieval coffin lids built into west porch, also a plain medieval stoup.

Listing NGR: NY8780277962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547002

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