Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip explained

Church of St Giles
Location Town:Leigh-on-Mendip
Location Country:England
Height:94 feet (29 metres)
Completion Date:c. 1350
Map Type:Somerset
Coordinates:51.2239°N -2.4416°W

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 93inchesft8inchesin (ftin) 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. 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Church of St Giles . historicengland.org.uk . 17 October 2006.
  2. Web site: Faceless Clock . Leigh on Mendip . 4 January 2009.
  3. Book: Flannery, Julian . Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England . 2016 . London . Thames and Hudson. 378–385 . 978-0-500-34314-2 . 965636725 .
  4. Book: Wright, Peter Poyntz . The Parish Church Towers of Somerset, Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550 . 1981 . Avebury Publishing Company . 0-86127-502-0.
  5. Web site: Bells . Leigh-on-Mendip . 4 October 2011 . 28 September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928152817/http://www.leigh-on-mendip.org.uk/orgs/church/church.htm#Bells . dead .
  6. Web site: History of Leigh-on-Mendip . Leigh-on-Mendip . 4 October 2011.
  7. Web site: de Viggiani . May . A History of Leigh on Mendip . Mary de Viggiani . 4 October 2011.
  8. Web site: St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip . Church of England . 4 October 2011.