Church of St Giles and St Peter

Heritage listing

Details 690/2/183 CHURCH STREET 12-OCT-51 SIDBURY CHURCH OF ST GILES AND ST PETER (Formerly listed as: SIDBURY CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST GILES) (Formerly listed as: SIDBURY CHURCH OF ST GILES) GV I Medieval: significant Norman work, Transitional arcades,13th-century transepts, 15th-century porch and internal features. Restoration 1843 by John Hayward. Further restoration by Micklethwaite and Somers Clarke 1884-5 and by Micklethwaite 1898-9 (chancel). MATERIALS: Limestone rubble and ashlar. Limestone dressings. Slate roofs. Shingled spire. PLAN: Nave, chancel, W steeple, N and S aisles, S porch, N and S transepts, N vestry. EXTERIOR: The church is an imposing building in the centre of the village, displaying work of various periods, and is surrounded by a churchyard. At the W end is a large and important Norman tower. It is of three stages with very shallow pilaster buttresses at the corners. The S face has a later polygonal, embattled stair turret rising to near the top of the second stage. The ground storey has a pointed W doorway and above it a three-light Perpendicular window. The second stage has pairs of small Norman windows, those on the W face containing two full-length standing bas-relief figures of a bishop and a saint discovered in 1843 and probably dating from the 12th century. The belfry stage has pairs of two-light openings, separated by a flat pilaster. The openings have belfry windows have round-arched lights with a shafts in between (the E face has a single-light opening). The embattled parapets and eight pinnacles date from 1884-5 as does the slender, recessed shingled spire. Otherwise the S elevation presents the two-storey embattled S porch in the second bay from the W, the gable of the S transept and the Norman chancel. The porch has a plain outer do

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.