Church Of St. George

The Church of St. George is a Grade II listed church located on Elliott Street in Tyldesley. Built between 1821 and 1824 by Sir Robert Smirke for the Church Commissioners, it features a chancel that was extended in 1887. The church is constructed of dressed stone and exhibits a Gothick style. It has a nave with a clerestory and aisles, a west tower, a chancel, and a vestry. The nave and aisles consist of seven bays, each with a projecting plinth, a coped parapet, and weathered buttresses that are set diagonally at the corners, topped with crocketed pinnacles. Each bay includes a two-light aisle window with plain tracery and a clerestory window with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. There is a porch in the westernmost bay. The chancel, which continues from the nave, features a two-light window and a three-light east window, both adorned with Geometrical tracery. The three-stage tower has weathered diagonal buttresses, a west door, a lancet window in the second stage, and three lancet openings in the belfry. An octagonal spire is positioned behind a parapet, supported by crocketed corner pinnacles and flying buttresses.

Inside, the church has double-chamfered nave arcade arches resting on octagonal columns and a cambered roof structure with a timber ceiling. There is a west gallery, and the timber fittings include screens, pews, stalls, and a pulpit. A notable feature is the wall memorial to James Mort, dated 1855, created by Garner of Manchester.