Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church built in 1897 by J.W. Thompson. It is constructed of thinly-rendered sandstone rubble, featuring a plinth, quoins, and ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate with red ridge tiles and stone gable copings. The church includes a nave with a south porch and a north transept vestry, as well as a chancel with a north organ chamber and porch.

The gabled south porch has a triple-chamfered two-centred arch with wide moulded stops, and it features boarded double doors with elaborate hinges. The porch also has gable coping, a roll moulded gable finial, and moulded kneelers. The nave has chamfered lancet windows, which are paired and set in alternate-block surrounds. There is a three-light west window with flat bar tracery beneath a gabled bellcote, and a plate-traceried five-light east window. Buttresses with offsets define the nave bays, and the doors in the vestry and north porch are styled similarly to the south door. The steeply-pitched roof is topped with a stone cross finial.

Inside, the church features painted plaster over a boarded dado and a panelled chancel dado. The panelled boarded roof includes stencil patterns in the chancel. There is a wide two-centred chamfered chancel arch and paired transept arches, with a boarded screen leading to the vestry. Notable glass includes a window in the south aisle from 1923 by Baguley, and south chancel windows depicting Sts. Mary, George, and Michael, with the depiction of Michael being of high quality.

The church also houses an octagonal stone font and high-quality pews, which were a gift from subscribers in 1937, named on a plaque on the west wall. These pews, made by Thompson of Masham, are crafted from thick, square-ended adze-dressed oak with simple alternate-chiselled decoration on the ends and feature a mouse carved in three places. The ogee oak font cover is also by Thompson of Masham.