We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 52.8319 / 52°49'54"N
Longitude: 1.2946 / 1°17'40"E
OS Eastings: 622028
OS Northings: 331126
OS Grid: TG220311
Mapcode National: GBR VCX.J3N
Mapcode Global: WHMSN.V2NV
Plus Code: 9F43R7JV+QR
Entry Name: Church of St Giles
Listing Date: 4 October 1960
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1373434
English Heritage Legacy ID: 224471
Also known as: St Giles, Colby
ID on this website: 101373434
Location: St Giles's Church, Colby, North Norfolk, NR11
County: Norfolk
District: North Norfolk
Civil Parish: Colby
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Banningham, Colby, Felmingham, Skeyton, Suffield and Tuttington
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Church building
TG 23 SW COLBY
6/24 Church of St.Giles 4:10:60
- II*
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with stone dressings, brick. Tiled roof. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch. Unbuttressed tower of stages. West window with Y-tracery of cl300. Change above this from flint fragments to larger flints. Ringing chamber openings cusped with hood moulds. 2-light Perpendicular bell opening. Gargoyles. Brick parapet. 4 bay buttressed nave. 3 3-light windows with panel tracery to south. Rood stair to south east corner of nave now cemented over. To north nave and chancel wall brick of 1749 with semi-circular headed windows. 2 bay chancel buttressed with diagonal buttress to south. 2 3-light panel tracery windows under 4-centre arches with hood moulds. Buttressed C15 porch of 2 storeys to first nave bay. Flushwork to base, also to left and right of door and above door. Stone carvings of St. Michael and St. George in the spandrels. Central niche with stone canopy to upper storey with a window to each side having cusped ogee head under square hood moulds. Restored doorway has shaft with continuous inner and outer moulding with hollows and rolls. Plain inner doorway, back of door probably C17. Interior. Tall, narrow, tower arch. Rood stair. Some re-used poppy-head bench ends. Arch from parvise into nave now blocked. Font with cusped, sunk panels on shaft; octagonal bowl with lion head supports having the symbols of the Evangelists, the donors, the Virgin and child, woodman with axe, final panel blank. Ogee arched piscina and sedilia.
Listing NGR: TG2202831126
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings