MSO12166 - Former chantry chapel, Leighland Chapel (Monument)

An ancient chapel dedicated to St Giles is at Leighland Chapel and belonged to the parish church of Cleeve. The structure is 46ft long and 19ft wide with a small turret and one bell. [1] The chapel existed in 1320. In 1548 it was regarded as a chantry. It was a single cell building with a western bellcot and a large southern porch which had probably been a tower, its upper part converted to a gabled room perhaps in the C18. The church of St Giles, succeeding to the dedication of the medieval chapel, was built in 1861-2 by C.E Giles.The medieval tiles around the font are probably from Cleeve Abbey. [2] A chapel called "Lyland Chapel" is listed in this parish in 1548. No remains of an earlier building are incorporated in the present St Giles's church (MSO10523), which is entirely C19 and in normal use. [3]