page_title: St Giles' Church, Cambridge
section_title: Reconstruction
hierarchical_section_title: St Giles' Church, Cambridge / History / Reconstruction
caption_attribution_description: English: The original Anglo-Saxon church of St Giles' completely obscured by post-reformation additions.
context_page_description: The Church of St Giles is a Grade II*-listed church in Cambridge, England. It is a Church of England parish church in the Parish of the Ascension of the Diocese of Ely, located on the junction of Castle Street and Chesterton Road. It was completed and consecrated by the Bishop of Ely in 1875, to replace an earlier church founded in 1092. The church, which added "with St Peter" to its appellation when the neighbouring St Peter's Church became redundant, is home to both an Anglican and a Romanian Orthodox congregation and is used as a venue for concerts and other events. It also serves as a main location of the Cambridge Churches Homeless Project.
  The war memorial in the churchyard, designed by Bodley and Hare and unveiled in 1920, is Grade II-listed.
context_section_description: The original structure of the medieval church became almost entirely obscured or pulled down by a large post-Reformation extension and the addition of box pews. Early in the 19th century the vicar, William Farish (third Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy) enlarged the accommodation from 100 to 600 seats.
  According to former county archaeologist Alison Taylor, the church was serving the impoverished and fast-growing community of the upper town, in the neighbourhood of the castle mound, and its shire hall (assize court) (1842) and prison, when a new building was planned, incorporating elements from the previous church. The new Victorian building, standing a little north of the  one it replaced, was erected to the design of  T. H. and F. Healey, architects, of Bradford. In the new church, the early 12th-century chancel arch of the older church was reset between the south aisle and the south chapel, and a late 12th-century doorway was reset between the north aisle and the vestry. The stone Carr Monument (early 17c.), commemorating Nicholas Carr, appointed the University's second Regius Professor of Geek in 1547, was reset in the south wall of the south chapel (the Lady Chapel).
caption: The interior of the old church in 1874, showing the post-Reformation extension and box pews.
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