St Giles, St Giles on the Heath, Devon

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Location
(50°41′36″N, 4°19′54″W)
Site Location
St Giles on the Heath
National Grid Reference
SX 354 908
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Devon now Devon
Diocese
medieval Truro now Exeter
Dedication
medieval St Giles now St Giles
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Hazel Gardiner
Visit Date
12 September 2005

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Feature Sets
Description

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. 

History

There is no record for St Giles on the Heath in the Domesday Survey.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Bibliography

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.