Church Of St George

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9172 HIGH STREET 886-1/8/92 (East side) 17/03/77 Church of St George

GV II

Parish church. 1822-23, with later additions. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Classical style, with pedimented liturgical west front, divided by pilasters into 3 bays. Stone portico with plain entablature carried on Tuscan columns. Central paired entrance doors with radial fanlights, separated by a single 16-pane sash window. Central Venetian window in stone architrave above in segmentally-arched recess beneath the gable apex. Round-arched 30-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads in full-height segmentally-arched recesses each side. Return elevations to (liturgical) north and south of 7 bays arcaded by giant pilasters. Round-arched upper windows with radial glazing linked by continuous hoodmoulding, and 30-pane sash windows below. Eastern gable has central segmentally-arched panel with lunettes each side. Chancel with Venetian window a later addition, together with vestries to north and south. The church was built as a speculation and was originally intended as a Congregational Church. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N and Hubbard, E.: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-).

Listing NGR: SJ9184272976