Church Of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1967. Church.
Church Of St George
- WRENN ID
- north-gallery-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a former parish church, likely dating from the 13th century. The chancel was largely rebuilt and the nave was widened on the north side around 1822, with further restoration occurring in 1888. The building is constructed of coursed rubble, patched with brick, and features some squared medieval walling on the south nave wall, topped with graduated green slate roofs. It has an aisleless nave with a south porch, though the 1888 west tower has since been demolished. The chancel includes a north vestry.
The church mainly has late 19th-century pointed windows with brick heads, except where noted otherwise. All windows feature simple wood tracery forming grouped lancets. The nave consists of two bays. On the south side, there is a fragmentary chamfered plinth, a replaced door behind the porch on the west bay with a re-set chamfered lintel, and a square-headed window in the east bay that has chamfered reveals, a hoodmould, and a shouldered rear arch. There is also a buttress with two offsets at the east. The north wall, dating from around 1822, has two pointed three-light windows. The roof is low-pitched with stone-coped gables.
The chancel is lower and narrower, featuring a fragmentary chamfered plinth on the south side, a Priest's door with a re-set chamfered lintel, and three-light pointed windows in the west bay and at the east end. It also has a low-pitched roof with a coped east gable. A late 19th-century gabled porch has a round-arched doorway with a brick head.
Inside, the church has a plastered interior with a narrow 13th-century pointed red sandstone chancel arch, which has one chamfered order supported by mid-wall corbels. The north corbel features a male head, while the south corbel has a female head with its tongue out. There is a floor slab in the chancel commemorating Jane Killinghall, who died in 1726. The church also contains a tub-shaped sandstone font from around 1160, resting on a possibly 14th-century stepped, irregular octagonal base.
A 20th-century brick vestry is present but is not of special interest.
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