Description:An early photograph of St. Giles' Church on Walsall Street, Willenhall, the predecessor to the current St. Giles Church. There has been a church on this site since at least 1297, when a parson of Willenhall, Thomas de Trollesbury is mentioned in the Calendar of Patent Rolls. The nave of the mediaeval church, which was a chapel of ease to the mother church of St. Peter, Wolverhampton, was rebuilt in the mid 18th century retaining the stone tower, as depicted here. This church was demolished and replaced in 1866-67 by a new church designed by W.D. Griffin.