St Giles', Cambridge

13/07/2025

13/07/2025

July 2025 – Further Fundraising for St Giles’ Restoration

At St Giles’ Church (opposite Kettle’s Yard) the gutters, many of the windows and their masonry surrounds are being renovated urgently, to safeguard their structural integrity.
The work has been funded by a generous grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and another from the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Fund and St Giles’ building reserves.

With scaffolding in place and craftspeople engaged there is an opportunity also to renovate some of the adjacent weathered masonry before that deteriorates more – this is much more cost effective if it is done at the same time. We plan to do as much of the extra restoration as funding will allow, starting with those parts that overlook the garden.

Please help us to raise the extra £30,000 needed to renovate this stonework for this and future generations. You can donate online at www.fosgc.org/about-3

13/07/2025

January 2025 – Major Renovation Work Starts

St Giles’ will be undergoing quite extensive renovation work to the windows and gutters on the north and south aisles during at least the first six months of the year and the work has already started.

Shuttered scaffolding was erected along the south side (garden side) of the building during December last year. Now scaffolding is being installed inside below the clerestory windows, around the south nave pillars and on the south side of the chancel. The plan is for the main south door, disabled access door, vestry, kitchenette and toilet to remain accessible except for a few day times when windows are being removed or replaced. Once the work on the south side is completed the clerestory windows and guttering on the north side will be repaired in a similar fashion.

This work has been enabled by generous grants from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust. We hope to keep the church open daily unless active building work makes that impossible.

21/06/2024

Meet our newly elected church warden, Dr Oliver Coates. Welcome to St Giles'!

29/03/2024

20/12/2023

Preparations for Christmas are hotting up here.

01/10/2023

05/02/2023

Tonight's Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group Sleepout at St Giles', Cambridge raising funds for refugees and the homeless.

https://justgiving.com/campaign/camcragsleepout2023

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4697) Saturday 4th February 2023.

13/11/2022

'God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!'

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12/11/2022

Flowers for Remembrance Sunday