Description

BOWES THE STREET
NY 9913
(South side)
33/27 Church of St. Giles
12/1/67
II
Parish church. Mid C12 nave; C13 chancel; C14 north and south transepts; c.1404
south porch. Extensively restored and north porch added in 1863 by Messrs. Hay
of Liverpool. Coursed and partly-rendered sandstone rubble; graduated green
slate roofs. Aisleless nave with north and south porches and transepts; chancel.
All windows, except for east window are trefoil-headed lancets of 1863.

4-bay nave: fragments of low plinth; flat buttresses at west; large 3-light west
window under pointed hoodmould; west bellcote with twin pointed openings;
steeply-pitched roof with coped gables and shaped footstones.

Buttressed, lower and narrower 4-bay chancel: C19 priest's door to south; late
C15 Perpendicular 3-light east window with panel tracery and a depressed-pointed
head under hollow-chamfered hoodmould; steeply-pitched roof.

Gabled south porch: moulded pointed-arched doorway under hoodmould with eastern
head stop; worn crucifixion relief in gable. Gabled north porch with pointed-
arched doorway. Mid C12 doorways, within both porches, have chamfered round
arches; datestone (AN:DO:) above north door. Gabled transepts each with 2
1694
lancets; 2 sculptured stones in north transept gable.

Painted and plastered interior. North transept has double-chamfered arch dying
into wall and a pointed-arched piscina with fluted drain. Chancel with similar
arch on moulded semicircular mid-wall corbels; pointed-arched piscina in south
chancel wall has foliated cross-slab head in rear wall; round rear-arch of a
blocked priest's door in north chancel wall.

Fittings and monuments: Inscribed Roman dedication stone in north transept.
Large grave slab,with sword and hound,to west of north door; several other
medieval grave slab fragments. 2 fonts flanking north door: C12 circular bowl
with incised zig-zag on C13 stem with 4 engaged shafts; this stem probably
belonged to the other font, a C13 circular bowl with 3 bands of leafwork, which
now stands upon a re-cut fragment of a Roman altar. Small, possibly C17 circular
bowl, with small relief of a human figure and raised geometric decoration, to
east of north door. Plaque dated 1878, on south nave wall, records a sum of
money raised, by the friends of Thomas Headlam to augment the living of Bowes.

(Rev. William Oliver, The Story of Bowes Church, 1944).

Listing NGR: NY9929113514

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608808

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)