Historic churches · South East England
Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip
Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip — church in Leigh upon Mendip, Somerset, England, UK.
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Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip is a historic church in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1301. Heritage designation: Grade I listed building. Affiliated with Anglicanism. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Leigh upon Mendip, Somerset, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.2239°, -2.4416°.
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The Church of St Giles in Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset, England, dates from around 1350, and was rebuilt around 1500. It is a Grade I listed building, with an unusual faceless clock. The 93-foot-8-inch (28.55 m) tower dates from around 1464. It contains six bells, five of which date from the 1750s. A scratch sundial can be seen on one of the buttress at the foot of the tower. There is a stone statue of St Catherine on the sill of the southeast window, which may date from the 12th century. It was found in 1898 and believed to have been moved to the church from the chapel of St Catherine in Mells. The parish is part of the benefice of Leigh-on-Mendip with Stoke St Michael within the Frome deanery.
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- Coordinates
- 51.2239, -2.4416
- District
- Somerset
- Parish
- Leigh-on-Mendip
- Postcode
- BA3 5QJ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Frome and East Somerset
- Established
- 1301
Sources
- wikidata: Q5117416 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: St Giles Leigh on Mendip.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip?
- Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip is in South East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.2239°, -2.4416°.
- When was Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip built?
- Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip dates to 1301 — the Norman & medieval period.
- Is Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip a listed building?
- Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip carries the heritage designation "Grade I listed building" — a protective status under UK heritage law.