St. Giles' Church, Uley

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Grade 2* Listed Building. Uley Anglican parish church. St. Giles' church, situated high on a bank overlooking the Uley valley, was rebuilt by S.S. Teulon, 1857-58. A Norman church stood on the site before. It comprises of chancel, nave, south aisle with the old two-storey south-east vestry/organ loft, south porch and three stage north tower. The church is predominantly in 14th C 'Decorated' style apart from the 'Early English' style south porch. Squared and coursed limestone walls and stone slate roofs. The lower two stages of the tower have buttresses at right angles; and there is a bell stage with pierced stone screens. This top stage also has an open parapet, and a small octagonal north-west decorative spirelet on the stair turret. This crocketed stone spirelet has openings like a medieval chimney. There are several small tri-lobed 'cloverleaf' windows, in decorative stone surrounds, set in the north and west faces of the tower. There is a clock and a small, circular, oculus window on the east side of the tower. The organ chamber has a large oculus window. The chancel has diagonal buttresses. There is a new single-storey octagonal north-west vestry by David Barnes, 1990. There is a stained glass east window in the church by Wailes, 1860. The side windows of 1872 are by Wailes, Son & Strang; and there is a window in the south aisle by Kempe, 1883. Also in the south aisle is a window by the Wailes, Son & Strang firm dated 1874. #church #Uley