Building record 0292000000 - ST GILES' CHURCH, PITCHCOTT

Dimensions - Length 24m, Width 7m.
Plain ediface chiefly in Early English style (B2).
Parish Church of St Giles, stands about 0.66 mile SW of Oving. The walls of the nave and chancel are of stone rubble, with stone dressings; the walls of the tower are of ashlar, with some tiles inserted in the joints, and were formerly covered with cement. The roofs are tiled. The nave is possibly of the 12th century, but the chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century; doorways and windows were inserted in the 14th and 15th centuries. The lower stage of the west tower was built in the 15th century, and the upper stage in the 16th century. The south porch was rebuilt in 1662, the date inscribed on a stone over the doorway. In the 19th century the north vestry was added, the E wall of the chancel and the chancel arch were rebuilt, and the whole building was restored. The 13th-century book-rest in the splay of the SW window of the chancel is an unusual survival of such a fitting. (B3).
Last service in October 1974 (B6).
Grade II+. Parish church, now disused. Nave probably C12, C13 chancel, C14 and C15 fenestration, tower C15 and 16. Porchrebuilt 1662, remainder much restored 1864. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roofs. W. tower has plinth, diagonal buttresses, plain parapet, and single openings to bell-chamber with cusped rectangular heads. C15 W. doorway and window, both restored, the doorway with 4-centred arch and hoodmould, the window with 2 traceried lights. Nave has 2 bays of 2-light windows with cusped flat heads, now mostly C19, and central N. and S. doorways with 2-centred chamfered arches. N. doorway is blocked; S. door has cusped niche above and gabled porch with shallow chamfered arch. Chancel has diagonal buttresses, 2 restored lancets and moulded doorway to S., C19 vestry to north, and 3-light traceried E. window with small cusped roundel above. Interior: double hollow-chamfered arch to tower. C19 chancel arch on corbel columns with carved foliage caps and bases. N. wall of chancel has rectangular recess, S. wall has cusped piscina. C19 roofs and glass in E. window. C13 moulded stone book- rest has been moved to Oving church. Other fittings have been sold and dispersed. Building due to be converted to house at time of listing. RCHM II p. 235-6 (B8).
Buildings report held at NMR (B9).
Pitchcott church was included in a collection of sketches of Buckinghamshire churches by Charlotte Pigott in the early 1840s (B10).