West Bridgford St Giles

Stonework

Stonework around
the priest's door

The changes in stonework, as St Giles' was extended over the ages, is most readily seen around the priest's door.

The lower portion or the rubble walling is built of material obtained locally, known as 'skerry', or more technically 'Trent Valley mudstone'.

The two large east windows in the old chancel date from the mid-fourteenth century. The stone used in the tracery was traced to the magnesian limestone obtained from a quarry in the stone-yielding district between Hucknall and Mansfield.

The medieval tower is a little later and is built of sandstone from the Millstone Grit successions of Derbyshire.

The stone for the modern extension of the church, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, came from Coxbench in Derbyshire.

Repairs to the tower and old part of the church in 1904 also used ashlar obtained from Derbyshire.