Church of St Giles
Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip is located in Somerset
Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip
Location within Somerset
General information
Town or cityLeigh-on-Mendip
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°13′26″N 2°26′30″W / 51.2239°N 2.4416°W / 51.2239; -2.4416
Completedc. 1350
Height94 feet (29 metres)

The Church of St Giles in Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset, England, dates from around 1350, and was rebuilt around 1500. It is a Grade 1 listed building,[1] with an unusual faceless clock.[2]

The 93-foot-8-inch (28.55 m) tower dates from around 1464.[3][4] It contains six bells, five of which date from the 1750s.[5] A scratch sundial can be seen on one of the buttress at the foot of the tower.[6]

There is a stone statue of St Catherine on the sill of the southeast window, which may date from the 12th century.[1] It was found in 1898 and believed to have been moved to the church from the chapel of St Catherine in Mells.[7]

The parish is part of the benefice of Leigh-on-Mendip with Stoke St Michael within the Frome deanery.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Church of St Giles". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2006.
  2. ↑ "Faceless Clock". Leigh on Mendip. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  3. ↑ Flannery, Julian (2016). Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 378–385. ISBN 978-0-500-34314-2. OCLC 965636725.
  4. ↑ Wright, Peter Poyntz (1981). The Parish Church Towers of Somerset, Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550. Avebury Publishing Company. ISBN 0-86127-502-0.
  5. ↑ "Bells". Leigh-on-Mendip. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "History of Leigh-on-Mendip". Leigh-on-Mendip. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  7. ↑ de Viggiani, May. "A History of Leigh on Mendip". Mary de Viggiani. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip". Church of England. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
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