Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- knotted-casement-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, London Road, Poynton with Worth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 918 835
- Coordinates
- 53.3491, -2.12323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a Grade II listed church built between 1858 and 1859 by architect Crowther, with the south steeple added in 1884-1885 by Medland and Henry Taylor. It is designed in a late 13th-century style and constructed from coursed rubble with a steeply-pitched slate roof. The church features a nave with two aisles, a chancel, and a south porch that includes a steeple in the southeast corner. The aisle consists of five bays with simple two-light cusped windows, while the clerestory has six bays with alternating circular and two-light cusped windows. The building is supported by buttresses with offsets and gable crosses. The west end of the nave is adorned with two very slim cusped lancets and a sexfoil rose window above. The east window is geometrical with four lights. The heavily buttressed tower includes an octagonal stair turret with three stages and twin-louvred bell openings, topped by a broached octagonal spire featuring lucarnes. The south porch has a chamfered pointed arch of a single order, with an inner arch that is savagely cusped.
Inside, the nave has three bays with arcades supported by octagonal piers. The chancel arch is set on corbelled colonettes, and there are stone sedilia and piscinae. The nave and chancel both have wagon roofs. The east window in the north arcade features stained glass by J Aldam Heaton, which is now worn and blurred, along with some other early Victorian glass.
Local climate
Church of St George sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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