Our visitors (holiday makers, walkers and cyclists using the Paston Way or our Quiet Lanes, “church collectors” or those who just arrive by happy chance) are very welcome.

This pretty little church is open at all times and welcomes all who wish to come and pray, contemplate or just sit in the quiet of the country side. There are no steps, so wheelchair access is on the flat right up to the Altar rail, BUT some of the tiles are slightly sinking.

The handsome three stage perpendicular tower was beautifully built with some chequered patterns of lime stone and flint but strangely has no parapet.  St. Giles has had some restructuring and rebuilding work done over the years but still retains its medieval character.  There were once aisles which were demolished around 1785 and windows inserted into the filled-in arcades, as the church was short of money. A Faculty explains that the sale of the “broken lead” and the excess building stone will pay for a new Westmoreland slate roof! (still going strong).  Then in 1860 the Victorians refurbished the interior (see the cutting below for a contemporary account).

Then in 2003 the chancel roof was stripped and re-slated at a cost of £48,000. The VAT reclaimed (£6,058) almost paid for a major repair in 2012 to the silence chamber floor, which was itself in danger of immanent collapse.