St Giles is a church with an unlovely exterior. It sits at the bottom of Castle Hill, looming over the crossroad north of Magdalene Street. It sits a little way up the slope, and hence has a rather imposing position, but this is mostly wasted - the church was entirely rebuilt in 1875, a projected tower was never built, so all that one now sees is a long nave with two aisles and a bleak west end, all built in blackening brick. Indeed, in an earlier version of this page I gave my opinion was that St Giles is probably the most unattractive church in the city. The view from the west has a certain bleak grandeur, I suppose - a mass of brown brick with a buttress in the middle and two mean windows on either side - but only when I'm feeling at my most Larkin-esque do I even come close to liking it.

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