Church of Saint Giles, Romanesque church in Milevsko, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Giles is a Romanesque church with a rectangular nave and a square east end, originally measuring 19.7 by 9 metres. A stone bell tower with two rows of Romanesque windows and a first-floor tribune adjoins it. A Gothic net vault of the Milevsko type covers the presbytery, and the nave has a flat ceiling with a roof dendrochronologically dated to 1445/1446. The church now measures over 23 metres long, 11 metres wide and 15.5 metres high.

The Romanesque church dates from the last third of the 12th century, built as the private church of Jiří z Milevska, whose empora in the tower overlooked the nave. After the monastery was founded it became the parish church. Around 1400 it was largely rebuilt in Gothic style, and in 1785 the parish function moved to the monastery church, after which it decayed until restoration in 1883.

The church is now used as a funeral hall, adapted for that purpose in the 1980s. Its Gothic net vault in the presbytery, of the so-called Milevsko type, carries later painted Renaissance inscriptions and coats of arms; in 1407 Český Krumlov contracted a vault for its Saint Vitus church modelled on this one.

The entrance is on the south side through a tall, vaulted doorway. The church now serves as a funeral hall, so access may be limited during ceremonies. The cemetery around it was last enlarged and consecrated in 1899.

During the 2018 survey, a hidden 6 m passage was found in the north wall, ending in a medieval vault about 2.5 × 2.2 × 1.25 m. A camera revealed fragments of an early medieval reliquary with gold and silver crosses, a gold plate stamped IR (Jesus Rex) and part of an iron nail. The staircase to the lord's tribune is walled in and impassable.