Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church dating from the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed blue lias rubble with ashlar dressings, and has Welsh slate and leaded roofs. The church comprises a west tower, nave, chancel, north aisle, vestry, and south porch.

The tower has three stages, featuring a plinth and string courses, diagonal buttresses with six setoffs, a moulded battlemented parapet, and eight crocketed pinnacles. A 14th-century west door has a label mould and a 16th-century plank door. Above is a triple lancet window from the 14th century, and above that, four double lancet bell openings with label moulds and decorative tracery.

The north aisle has three bays, containing a 14th-century double lancet, a restored 15th-century triple lancet to the west, and a 14th-century cove moulded, ogee-headed doorway with a label mould, flanked by a diagonal buttress. An east window is a 15th-century triple lancet. The single-bay lean-to vestry has a 19th-century double lancet.

The chancel has two bays and a single 19th-century lancet to the north. The east window is a restored triple lancet with panel tracery and a hood mould. To the south, it has two diagonal buttresses with two setoffs, a coped gable with a cross, an off-centre 14th-century priest’s door with a four-centred arch and a square label mould, and flanked single 15th-century triple lancets with hood moulds.

The nave has three bays, with two double, one triple 15th-century lancets with hood moulds. The clerestory has two 15th-century two-light windows, a string course, two anthropomorphic gargoyles, a moulded parapet, and a coped gable with a cross. The south porch has a moulded and chamfered doorway, gable, and slate roof.

The three-bay north arcade features three circular piers with circular and octagonal capitals. The arches are chamfered and rebated, with five 19th-century windows. The north aisle contains a reset mask corbel in the north-east angle. The octagonal 17th-century font features shields in quatrefoil panels, inscribed with "He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved. Mark 16."

Fittings include a 19th-century pulpit, plain 19th-century pews, choir stalls, Royal Arms on canvas, and two 18th-century benefaction boards located under the tower. The chancel arch is rebated and chamfered, with filleted shaft responds with foliate capitals dating from the 13th century. It includes Tractarian wall paintings at the east end, a carved and painted timber reredos from 1882, and 19th-century stained glass. A 13th-century piscina is set in the south wall. The communion table is 17th-century with a 19th-century top.