Church Micro 10560 Stanton St Quintin Multi-cache
Church Micro 10560 Stanton St Quintin
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This church micro brings you to St Giles, a 12C church in the pretty village of Stanton St Quintin.
The church is dedicated to St. Giles who was an abbot in Provence, dying c.720. He was of royal descent but gave away his property and became a hermit. His feast day is 1st September. The first written record of this dedication is in 1763 but the church is likely to have been so dedicated before the 16th century.
A church is known to have existed in the 12th century and the lower stages of the tower and much of the nave are of around 1125. In the exterior west wall is a 12th century carving of a enthroned Christ with his feet on a dragon.. Above the Norman archway in the porch is a figure of St. Christopher from the Perpendicular period. Around 1200 the aisle was added and the small vestry as a chapel with a porch doorway reset because of this, In the 13th century it is likely that the chancel was rebuilt while in the 15th century a new west window was built and two north windows were inserted in the nave.
In the late 18th or early 19th century the chancel was said to have been shortened by six feet and in 1826 the top of the tower was rebuilt in neo-Norman style. The nave was lengthened by ten feet in 1827-8 and the west gallery replaced by a new one. In 1843 an organ was bought for �£56.10.0d (�£56.50) by means of a one shilling (5p) subscription; seats were moved in the gallery to make room for it. This organ was replaced by another in 1874 at cost of �£120 but this proved very troublesome four years later. The maker, King of Islington, was very rude when told of its problems and eventually it was sold for �£20 and a harmonium was then used in the place of an organ. In 1928 Griffen & Stroud of Bath supplied a 60 year old restored organ but this was said to be of inferior quality. In 1949 it was overhauled and an electric blower installed.
A major restoration by J. H. Hakewill occurred in 1851; the aisle and porch were rebuilt, battlements were added to the tower, the west window and pews of 1739 were replaced, and it is likely that the gallery was removed at the same time. The total cost was �£490 and a service to celebrate the restoration was attended by the diarist Francis Kilvert. In 1851 the average congregation was 60 but the church must have been filled for this service. Heating was provided in 1883 by the means of a boiler placed in a pit providing heat via radiators. In 1889-9 the chancel was rebuilt in an ornate manner in the Perpendicular style by C.E. Ponting with the retention of the original Perpendicular chancel arch.
The churchyard was closed for burials in 1899 after the extension on the other side of the road had been opened in 1898. A new heating system was installed in 1933 but this was replaced by electric tubular heaters in 1948; electric light had been installed in 1934. In 1958 the interior of the roofs of the nave and aisle was completely recovered in new plasterboard. The stone pulpit was carved by the rector, the Rev. Bertrand Pleydell-Bouverie in 1876 and placed in the church in 1893. There were two bells in 1553; in 1876 two cracked bells were replaced by one new bell, weighing 4cwt 3 lbs, at a cost of �£40. The font is said to be of Roman origin and is lead lined; in appearance it seems to be Norman. waypoint 1 find the grave of Basil Howard Alers Hankey CBE of Stanton Manor who died June AB 19CD aged 8E
The cache can be found a short stroll away at:N51 31.BE(Cx2-D)
W002 08.D(C-A)E
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