the present st. giles church on church road is not the original church in rowley regis. the church built in 1840 to succeed the original mediaeval building, was found to be unsafe and condemned in 1900. the next church, built in 1904, was burned down in 1913, some believing the fire to have been started by suffragettes or local striking steelworkers; this however is supposition and it was more than probable it was a simple accident, the church at this time using paraffin as a means of lighting and the latter perhaps causing the fire. its present day successor was designed by holland w. hobbiss and a. s. dixon, and was built in 1923.