Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- deep-gravel-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 767 881
- Coordinates
- 53.3901, -2.35115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a church located on Church Street in Altrincham. The base of the tower dates back to possibly 1799, while the tower and spire were completed in 1874. The chancel was added in 1886, and significant rebuilding was finished around 1897. The nave was designed by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. The church is constructed of red brick with terracotta decorations, featuring a slate spire and clay tile roofs.
The layout includes a nave, aisles, a west tower, and a porch, along with a polygonal chancel that has a vestry and a side chapel. It has a six-bay clerestory and aisles with stone bands, flat buttresses, and coupled semi-circular headed windows with hoodmoulds, except for the north side, which incorporates stained glass and semi-circular headed windows with stone tracery from the former church. The three-stage tower features a spire, recessed arched openings to the belfry, a blind arcade above, and corbelled brick eaves. The chancel is adorned with tall semi-circular headed lights with terracotta enrichments and a three-light east window beneath a decorated gable.
Inside, the church has a moulded brick semi-circular arched nave arcade supported by circular columns with moulded capitals and bases. The aisles extend on either side of the tower, which is supported by massive brick piers. The roof features king and queen-post trusses with diagonally braced purlins, and there is stained glass throughout the interior.
Local climate
Church of St George sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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