Church Of St George

SJ 98 SW POYNTON-WITH-WORTH C.P. LONDON ROAD (West Side)

3/107 Church of St. George II Church, 1858-9 by Crowther, south steeple 1884-5 by Medland and Henry Taylor. Late C13 style. Coursed rubble, steeply-pitched slate roof. Nave, two aisles, chancel, porch on south side with steeple in SE corner. Aisle of 5 bays with simple 2-light cusped windows but clerestorey of 6 bays with alternative circular and 2-light cusped windows. Buttresses with offsets and gable crosses. West end of nave has two, very slim, cusped lancets and sexfoil rose window above. Geometrical east window of 4 lights. Heavily buttressed tower with octagonal stair turret of 3 stages. Twin-louvred bell openings. Broached octagonal spire with lucarnes. South porch has chamfered pointed arch of a single order with inner arch savagely cusped. Interior: Nave of 3 bays, arcades on octagonal piers. Chancel arch on corbelled colonettes; stone sedilia and piscinae. Wagon roofs in nave and chancel. Stained glass east window in north arcade by J Aldam Heaton, now worn and blurred. Some other early Victorian glass. (Pevsner and Hubbard).

Listing NGR: SJ9189483584