Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church dating from 1842, designed by Henry Stevens. It is built in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The church is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar detailing, and has Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and plain parapets.

The building comprises a west steeple, aisled nave, a south porch, a north vestry, and a chancel. A chamfered plinth runs around the base, and a moulded band sits at the base of the parapet. The west tower is battlemented, with four stages separated by moulded stringcourses. Diagonal buttresses, with three set-offs, are present on the west side, along with a single-light flat arched window. Similar windows are found on the north side. A doorway of two moulded orders leads to the tower, set above a two-light and a single-light Perpendicular style window, all under flat arches. Bell openings are set in each direction. A circular clock face is set within a moulded stone surround on the south side, and a recessed octagonal stone spire is topped with two tiers of lucarnes.

The gabled aisles have steeply pitched roofs. Tall two-light windows are on the west side. The north side features five three-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, and six buttresses. A chimney stack rises from the easternmost bay. The small north vestry has a flat arched window of two ogee lights. An unusual spherical triangle, formed of three cusped triangles, is set into the east end of the north aisle. The chancel east window is of two lights plus two lights with panel tracery. Lancet windows with tracery are on the north and south sides of the chancel, with a priest’s doorway featuring two orders of moulding on the south side. The south aisle has a two-light east window and four three-light south windows between buttresses, mirroring the north side. The steeply gabled south porch has a carved entrance with two orders of moulding, and small flat arched windows with two ogee headed lights to the west and east.

Inside, there are five bay arcades with octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and double chamfered arches. The walls are plastered and whitewashed. Two plain double-chamfered arched doorways lead into the tower, beneath a circular wheel window. A double chamfered chancel arch rises from semi-octagonal responds. The nave roof is a timber structure of a thin hammer beam type with pointed arches, while the shallow pitched aisle roofs have plastered panels. The south aisle contains a moulded round-arch tomb recess with a triangular arch above, featuring pierced tracery, and within it, an effigy of a civilian holding his heart. In the north aisle is an incised alabaster slab commemorating a knight, John Frances, dating from around 1375. A pedimented Ionic aedicule monument, dating from around 1636, is on the south wall of the chancel. Other interior features include a rich Decorated style octagonal font and cover, a low Gothic screen enclosing the choir vestry at the west end of the north aisle, a brass eagle lectern dated 1888, stained glass – the middle north aisle window by Morris & Co. (1922) and the south east window of the south aisle by Morris & Co. (1923) – and 19th century Gothic furnishings in the chancel. The nave pews are of 20th-century date.