Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- worn-tracery-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, St Georges Place, Macclesfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 918 729
- Coordinates
- 53.25375, -2.12373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a parish church built between 1822 and 1823, with later additions. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The church is designed in a classical style, featuring a pedimented liturgical west front divided into three bays by pilasters. A stone portico with a plain entablature is supported by Tuscan columns. The central entrance has paired doors with radial fanlights, flanked by a single 16-pane sash window. Above this is a central Venetian window set in a stone architrave within a segmentally-arched recess beneath the gable apex. Each side of the front has round-arched 30-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads, located in full-height segmentally-arched recesses. The return elevations to the north and south each have seven bays, arcaded by giant pilasters. The upper round-arched windows feature radial glazing and are linked by a continuous hoodmoulding, while 30-pane sash windows are located below. The eastern gable includes a central segmentally-arched panel with lunettes on either side. The chancel, which has a Venetian window, and the vestries to the north and south are later additions. The church was originally built as a speculative project and was intended to serve as a Congregational Church.
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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