Listed Building record MDR6308 - St Giles's Church, Church Lane, Killamarsh

St Giles's Church, Church Lane, Killamarsh, originally a 12th century building. [SK 4611 8096] St Giles's Church. [TU] (1) 'There does not appear to have been a church here at the time of the Domesday Survey, but one must have been erected shortly afterwards. Killamarsh was a parochial chapelry of Eckington until 1843. The church is dedicated to St Giles and consists of nave, chancel, south porch and embattled tower. The doorway into the chancel is Norman and is ornamented with a double row of chevron mouldings. The nave is plain, unlit on the north side and having windows of the Perpendicular period on the south side. The mouldings of the roof suggest it should be dated to c1450. The chancel is modern, in the Decorated style, and was built by the rector shortly after the separation of Killamarsh from Eckington. It is completely out of harmony with the rest of the church. At the time of the rebuilding of the chancel, two old grave slabs came to light and have now been built into the vestry wall on either side of the fireplace.' (2) 'In normal use.' (3-4) From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF KILLAMARSH CHURCH LANE SK 48 SE 3/171 Church of St Giles GV II* Parish Church. C12, C14, C15, with additions of 1895 by J M Brooks. Massive ashlar sandstone tower, nave of coursed coal measures sandstone, chancel of more evenly coursed sandstone, additions of 1895 in magnesian limestone. Concrete tiles to nave roof, elsewhere Welsh slates. Tower, nave, nave south porch, north aisle, chancel and vestry. Two stage Perp tower, rising from a two-stage moulded plinth, and with a moulded stringcourse between stages. Diagonal buttresses to corners of west wall, rising to the top of the first stage. Bell stage with pointed arched 2-light Perp windows with restored tracery below a simple hoodmould. Above, a stringcourse incorporating grotesque spouts. Embattled parapet with C19 crocketed finials. Stair tower to south-west corner, within eliptically arched head to doorway and lighting slits to each stage. 3-light west window with simple Y-tracery and cusping appears earlier than the Perp date for the tower. Gabled south porch with simple arched opening encloses C12 doorway with a single order of colonnettes, foliated capitals and a semi-circular arch with double chevron decoration. Within the decorated arch, a segmental arch with chamfers and plain plank double doors. Stone sundial to gable apex, cusped lancets to east wall and stone benches within. Four bay nave with two 3-light restored Perp windows, with pointed heads, with hoodmould above. Plain rendered parapet below which is evidence of an earlier clerestory. Moulded C19 coping to parapet. Mid C19 chancel rising from elaborately moulded plinth. Cross finial to leaded coping. Single sidewall lancet to south wall with hoodmould and foliage stops. Moulded stringcourse below cills. Vestry of 1895 with link to chancel, moulded copings to gables and a small octagonal chimney to side wall. Perp style windows of 3 and 4-lights. Contemporary north aisle with plain chamfered plinth, of three bays, with continuous stringcourses linking heads and cills. Three 4-light Perp-style windows with ogee headed lights between stilted segmental arches. Stepped buttresses beneath windows. Interior almost entirely C19 but the chancel south window contains a recently restored C15 stained glass window representing the Virgin and Child. Chancel east window by Warrington, 1845. Listing NGR: SK4612080966.' (5)