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[[File:St Giles RC Church Cheadle Staffs tower.jpg|right|thumb|Tower of St Giles']]▼
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| consecrated date = 31 August 1846
| architect = [[Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin]]
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| style = [[Gothic Revival]]
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| parish = St Giles, Cheadle
| heritage designation = Grade I
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'''St Giles' Church''' is a Roman Catholic church in the town of [[Cheadle, Staffordshire]], England. The Grade I [[Listed building|listed]] [[Gothic Revival]] church<ref name="nhle">{{NHLE |num=1038008 |desc=Grade I |accessdate=11 April 2009}}</ref> was designed by [[Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin]] and built between 1841 and 1846 for the Earl of Shrewsbury. It is in [[English Gothic architecture#Decorated Gothic|Decorated]] style, and is highly decorated on the outside and the inside, and has a tall [[Steeple (architecture)|steeple]]. The interior is painted throughout, and is floored with patterned tiles. Almost all the furniture and fittings were designed by Pugin, including the [[piscina]], [[sedilia]], a recess for an [[Easter Sepulchre]], the [[reredos]], [[baptismal font|font]], font cover, [[pulpit]], and screen.<ref name=pev97>{{Citation | last =Pevsner | first =Nikolaus | author-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title =Staffordshire | publisher =[[Penguin Books]] | year =1974 | location = Harmondsworth| isbn = 0-14-071046-9|p=97.}}</ref><ref name="nhle"/> The spire is {{convert|200|ft}} high and the church by far the tallest building in the town.
== History ==
===Origins===
The history of St
The Earl was zealous in promoting the Catholic cause following the [[Roman Catholic
St
===Gathering ideas===
At St
The site for St
Pugin also referred to St
That St
The infinite care which Pugin took over St
Not all of Pugin's authorities were English, however. [[Gothic architecture
===Building===
[[File:St Giles Church Cheadle.jpg|thumb|240px|The nave|left]]
Great care was taken over the selection of the building materials, which came principally from local sources. There was an abundance of [[oak]] and [[elm]] on Lord Shrewsbury's Alton estate, and local quarries produced [[sandstone]]s of various colours and textures. A new quarry for red and white sandstone was opened at Counslow Hill, between Cheadle and Alton, and from here came the stone for both St
It appears that Lord Shrewsbury himself suggested that [[alabaster]] should be used for the altars at Cheadle and St
A north porch was added, the south aisle was extended eastwards to form the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, the Lady Chapel was moved over to the North aisle, and the proposed Chapel of St
It is a commonly held fallacy that the main functions of the nave and aisles of a church are to seat as many people as possible. That had certainly not been the case in medieval times, when the nave and aisles were regarded not as an auditorium filled with a static body of people in fixed seats, but as a liturgical space in which there was movement and drama (for example the festal processions on high days and holy days, and the penitential processions in [[Lent]]). Though benches were not uncommon in medieval times, fixed seating as a generality came about only after the Reformation, and the arrangements in early nineteenth-century Catholic chapels were little different from those of [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Nonconformist]] ones, with seating often running right across the width of the building, and with galleries to provide extra accommodation. Pugin would have no such "protestantisms" at Cheadle. When Lord Shrewsbury proposed to fill St
[[File:St Giles RC Church Cheadle Staffs rood screen.jpg|thumb|240px|right|The rood
The care which Pugin took over the design of the rood
===Glazing and tiling===
Pugin experienced great difficulty in finding [[stained-glass]] artists able to make windows to his complete satisfaction, and at the right price. The process involved the working-up of Pugin's drawings into full-sized [[Modello|cartoon]]s, and the production of accurate colours by fusing various pigments onto the glass in a kiln at controlled temperatures. For the Cheadle windows he employed [[William Wailes]] of [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]. With the exception of the figure of St
Pugin believed that, after stained glass, [[encaustic tile]]s were amongst the most important forms of decorative art. By the winter of 1843 Pugin was able to tell Lord Shrewsbury that the tiles for Cheadle were proceeding well and that they would have "the finest floor in Europe"
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===Consecration===
The date for the consecration of St
The consecration of the church was postponed for twelve months, but by March 1846 Pugin could not guarantee even that, unless Lord Shrewsbury would allow him to keep a full work-force including joiners and painters. Of particular concern were the great crucifix and carved figures for the roodscreen, which were being made by [[George Myers (builder)|George Myers]] at [[Lambeth]]. The loss of the sculptor Thomas Roddis, who died in October 1845, was another sad blow, for although Roddis had completed his works at St
The consecration of St
===Significance===
[[File:St Giles RC Church Cheadle Staffs west door.jpg|thumb|West door|right]]
The importance of St
== Bell ringing==
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==See also==
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* [[List of Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire]]
* [[Grade I listed churches in Staffordshire]]
* [[Listed buildings in Cheadle, Staffordshire]]
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