Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1985. Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- sharp-courtyard-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 948 944
- Coordinates
- 53.44655, -2.07881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a church built between 1831 and 1832 by T. and C. Atkinson for the Church Commissioners. It is constructed from watershot dressed stone and features a slate roof. The church has a three-sided gallery plan with a central west tower. The seven-bay aisles share the same roof as the nave and are distinguished by a stone plinth, a coped parapet, and tall windows with four-centred arches and hoodmoulds. The corners of the building, as well as those of the small chancel bay, are marked by octagonal piers and bold pinnacles. The east window has five lights and rectilinear tracery, while the south aisle includes a wall-mounted sundial.
The tower is an imposing three-stage structure featuring a four-centred arch door, a four-light west window, clock faces, a transomed two-light belfry window, a coped parapet, and octagonal corner columns topped with pinnacles. Similar doorways on either side of the tower provide access to the galleries.
Inside, the church was altered in 1885 when the central pulpit was removed, a pierced gallery rail and new seats were installed, and the organ was relocated. During this renovation, the tall arcade columns that support the gallery were changed from octagonal to circular. These columns have moulded bases, enriched octagonal capitals, and support four-centred arches. The interior also features a coved plaster ceiling and stained glass. The organ, made by S. Renn in 1838, is currently in temporary storage.
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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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