St Giles, Balderton
St Giles, Balderton
St Giles is a Grade I parish church on Main Street, Balderton, Nottinghamshire, in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.
- Location
- Balderton, Nottinghamshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- City / town
- Balderton
- Address
- Main Street, Balderton, Nottinghamshire, NG24 3LL
- Postcode
- NG24 3LL
- Built
- C12–C14; restored c.1880 with C20 additions
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Giles
- Diocese
- Southwell and Nottingham
- Parish
- Balderton
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman and Gothic
- Materials
- Coursed rubble and ashlar; slate roofs with stone-coped gables
- Grid reference
- SK 819 515
- Opening hours
- Open every Wednesday; Spring and Summer between 2pm and 4pm and Autumn and Winter between 2pm and 3 pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
- Website
- http://bbc-churches.org.uk/
Overview
Historic England describes a parish church of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, restored about 1880 with twentieth-century additions. Fabric is coursed rubble and ashlar under slate roofs with stone-coped gables, kneelers and two ridge crosses. The plan is a tower with crocketed spire of about 1400, nave, north and south aisles with porches, and chancel with north chapel.
The three-stage thirteenth-century tower was encased in ashlar in the 1880s. It has an embattled parapet with pinnacles and a west doorway with colonnettes. Both porches are twelfth-century ashlar work: the north porch doorway has an inner order of beakheads, and the south porch, now enclosed by a twentieth-century extension, has chevron ornament. Interior fittings recorded in the listing include fifteenth-century pews with blind tracery and elaborate poppy heads, a restored twelfth-century chancel arch, and a fifteenth-century Virgin and Child figure. The church remains in regular use.