St Giles, Codicote
St Giles, Codicote
St Giles on Bury Lane, Codicote, is a Grade II* flint parish church of twelfth-century origin, in the Diocese of St Albans.
- Location
- Codicote, Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Hertfordshire
- City / town
- Codicote
- Address
- St Giles, Codicote, Hertfordshire, SG4 8XX
- Postcode
- SG4 8XX
- Built
- 12th-century origin; 13th-century fragments; 15th-century west tower; restored 1853
- Consecrated
- c.1111 (Bishop of Rochester), according to the parish account
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Giles
- Diocese
- St Albans
- Parish
- Codicote
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Medieval parish church with Perpendicular tower
- Materials
- Flint rubble with stone dressings, plain tile roofs
- Grid reference
- TL 218 187
- Opening hours
- At present, the prayer chapel only is open daily during daylight hours. The church is open at other times according to activities. It is hoped to be able to open the whole church daily when church improvements are completed.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of twelfth-century origin with some thirteenth-century fragments, a fifteenth-century west tower and a restoration of 1853: flint rubble with stone dressings and plain tile roofs. The three-stage battlemented west tower has a lead spike and wrought-iron weathervane. The nave keeps a restored twelfth-century lancet in the north wall; the south porch is nineteenth-century. The interior has a large fifteenth-century west tower arch, a south nave arcade on thirteenth-century octagonal bases, a restored fifteenth-century clerestory, a Jacobean hexagonal pulpit, and south-door iron scrollwork, possibly twelfth-century. The National Churches Trust states the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Rochester around 1111 and dedicated to St Giles with a chapel of the Holy Innocents. Listed Grade II* on 27 May 1968 (NHLE 1102834).