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Tithe records show that Hampton Gay had a parish church by 1074, although there are different opinions as to how much of the original medieval structure survives. The original church had features from at least the early thirteenth century but in 1767-72 The Rev’d Thomas Hindes, a member of the family that owned the manor, had it completely rebuilt.
In 1842 the antiquarian J H Parker condemned the Georgian architecture of St Giles’ Church as ‘a very bad specimen of the meeting-house style’ (Parker, Church Guide, 1956). In 1859-60 the curate, The Rev’d F C Hingeston, altered the church to his own designs, replacing the round-headed Georgian windows with ones in an Early English Gothic style and by having the south doorway re-cut in a Norman revival fashion (this door no longer exists).
For more information about the history of St Giles' Church in Hampton Gay, please go to The Akeman Benefice website following the link below -