Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a Grade I listed parish church located in Cullercoats, built between 1882 and 1884 by architect J.L. Pearson as a memorial for the 6th Duke of Northumberland's father. The church features irregularly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped with a graduated slate roof and stone gable copings. It is designed in the Early English style, comprising an aisled nave, transepts, and a tower on the south transept, along with a five-sided apse and a north vestry.

Notable architectural features include two-centred-arched doors with elaborate hinges in the open west bays of the aisles, with the northern door now glazed. The nave has tall two-light plate-traceried clerestory windows, while the aisles and the west baptistry contain lancets, with the baptistry featuring two groups of three stepped lancets divided by a gabled buttress. Similar buttresses with octagonal spirelets flank an eight-foil roundel at the peak of the west gable. The apse has two-light windows, and the first stage of the tower contains three-light windows, with slit openings beneath paired two-light belfry openings in the upper stages and a flat east stair turret. The tower is topped with a broach spire featuring tall lucarnes.

Inside, the church has ashlar walls and groined vaulting. The nave arcades are moulded and double-chamfered, supported by round piers with moulded capitals. There is a shallow blind triforium and a quatrefoil-pierced parapet above the west gallery, which overlooks a groined-vaulted, arcaded baptistry. High double-chamfered arches at the crossings feature dog-tooth moulding, and there is a high blind apse arcade. All windows have steeply sloping sills, wide splays, and moulded rear arches. The chancel floor is made of terrazzo and marble, with a stone communion rail and pulpit. A square font on a pedestal is supported by four columns and has a base made of Stanhope marble. The aisles are adorned with Art Nouveau copper light fittings. A brass plate commemorating the laying of the foundation stone on 4th August 1882 is located on the east pier of the south arcade.