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The church consists of chancel, nave with S aisle and S porch, and W tower. The original 13thc. church comprised W tower, and nave and chancel in one. the S aisle was added in the 15thc. and the S porch is 19thc. The church was restored by J. D. Sedding in 1868 and by J. P. St Aubyn in 1878 (Pevsner 1989, 707; Historic England listing: 1333042) . The font is the only feature that could be 12thc.
There is no record for St Giles on the Heath in the Domesday Survey.
F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications: or, England's patron saints, London, 1899, 242.
N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Devon, 2nd ed., London, 1989, 707–8.
