Church Of St George And Attached Boundary Wall

Church of St George and Attached Boundary Wall

Parish church built between 1887 and 1891 to designs by RC Sutton of Nottingham. The chancel was added in 1897 by GF Bodley, and a south chapel followed around 1911, probably also to Bodley's design. The building is constructed of rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with coped gables, executed in Gothic Revival style.

The church comprises a chancel, side chapels, vestry, nave with aisles, and north and south porches. The exterior features a plinth and sill band throughout. Windows are predominantly pointed arches with simple tracery. The chancel projects to the east with an altar recess framed by clasping buttresses and a high 3-light window. To the south of the chancel is an elliptical arched 2-light window. On the north and south sides of the chancel stand flat-roofed structures dating to 1897: a chapel with parapet and two flat-headed windows on each side, and a vestry similarly appointed. A larger flat-roofed vestry and lean-to organ chamber extends to the north, measuring 2 by 1 bays, with a blank east end featuring clasping buttresses and a traceried niche. Its eastern bay, defined by a buttress, contains a 2-light window and a gabled bell turret. The western bays have two similar windows.

The nave extends westward over 4 bays with 8 clerestory windows on each side. The west end displays two 2-light windows with a traceried round window above. The west gable is coped and topped with a tall gabled double bell turret. The coped gable of the planned south aisle is wider than the main structure and includes a boarded opening. The aisles are buttressed and contain 6 windows each, with 2 similar windows at their western ends.

The south porch is gabled with a moulded pointed arched doorway containing double doors and round windows in each side. The north porch was modified in the mid-20th century by the addition of an attached corridor leading to a church hall.

An attached boundary wall of Bulwell stone with chamfered ashlar coping runs along the south and west sides of the church. At the south-west corner stands a pair of square gate piers with chamfered ashlar caps and wrought-iron double gates.

The interior displays a nave and aisles of brick with ashlar piers and dressings, while the chancel and chapels are rendered. The chancel features a moulded brick arch with paired shaft responds and a pointed arched wooden barrel vault. The north side contains an organ case designed by Bodley. The east end has a pointed arch with shafts leading to the altar recess, flanked by pointed arched doors, and is lit by a stained glass east window. The south side features a double arcade of 2 bays with pointed arches and octagonal columns flanking a corridor. A shouldered opening at the east end leads to the east chapel.

The east chapel contains two stained glass windows and a panelled wooden ceiling. The south chapel has a pointed barrel vault with a pointed arched altar recess at the east end. This recess incorporates a 14th-century style triple niche with a spire containing three figures. The south side has a traceried piscina and three stained glass windows dating to 1949 by Whitefriars.

The nave displays 4-bay arcades with moulded brick arches, hood moulds, and round ashlar piers. Paired clerestory windows sit on a sill band. The roof is arch-braced with traceried gables and wall shafts. The west end contains stained glass from 1926. The aisles have lean-to roofs with wooden wall shafts. The north aisle features stained glass windows from around 1934 and the mid-20th century, with two doors to the north and a pointed arch to the east leading to a small side chapel. The south aisle has plain windows and a south door, with a shouldered opening at the east end and an arched opening to the chapel.

Fittings include a wooden pulpit, screen, and stalls dating to 1938, along with 19th-century benches. A 19th-century table font with granite shafts is fitted with a 20th-century wooden cover.