St Giles, Cheddington
St Giles, Cheddington
St Giles is a Grade II* medieval parish church on Church Path (listed as Station Road), Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. The village is in Buckinghamshire, though some imported records place it in Bedfordshire.
- Location
- Cheddington, Bedfordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Bedfordshire
- City / town
- Cheddington
- Address
- Church Path, Cheddington, Bedfordshire, LU7 0SG
- Postcode
- LU7 0SG
- Built
- C12 origins; C14–C15 alterations; C15 west tower and north aisle; restored 1855–56 and 1921–25
- Architect
- G. E. Street (1855–56 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Giles
- Diocese
- Oxford
- Parish
- Cheddington with Mentmore
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Medieval
- Materials
- Coursed rubble limestone, part ashlar and render; tiled chancel and porch, lead roofs elsewhere
- Grid reference
- SP 922 180
- Opening hours
- By arrangement, owing to the church's location.
Overview
Historic England dates the church to the twelfth century, altered in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a fifteenth-century west tower and north aisle and a nineteenth-century south porch and north vestry. Buckinghamshire’s heritage record notes a foundation associated with the Chenduits, a chancel arch widened about 1340, and restoration of 1855–56 by G. E. Street, including new roofs, with further work in 1921–25. The fabric is coursed rubble limestone, partly repaired in ashlar and partly rendered.
Fittings include a medieval octagonal stone font, an early-seventeenth-century altar table and pulpit, a poor box dated 1611, and an 1870 tile and mosaic reredos of the Last Supper by Powell and Sons. The church is in the parish of Cheddington with Mentmore.