Church of St George

The Church of St George is a church dating from 1828, designed by Francis Bedford as a Commissioners Church and later designated as a parish church in 1856. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble facing a brick structure. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with two aisles under a single span, and a chancel. The narrow west tower is enclosed by the aisles, with only its polygonal angle buttresses projecting from the west wall, displaying three stages, featuring a four-centred arched doorway and a two-light window above. It has paired bell chamber lights, an embattled parapet, and crocketed angle pinnacles. The aisles to the north and south are articulated into six bays, divided by buttresses capped with crocketed pinnacles above the eaves parapet. The windows are two-light and Late Decorated in style, with blind arcading in the west walls. A north porch, a later addition, features a heavy parapet and buttresses. A blocked south door has been replaced with a window. The chancel is partly a later addition, with a five-light east window incorporating a foiled circle. The church is enclosed by eastern iron entrance gates and railings within a retaining wall made of tooled sandstone.

The interior is a single, largely undivided space, with slender clustered shafts defining a four-bay arcade that supports rib vaulting over the nave and aisles. A western gallery features an arcade of three principal arches and two narrow arches, carried on blind arches below. The chancel has a boarded roof with an ornate truss featuring pendants. A scalloped arch, carried on short, corbelled piers, leads to the later chancel extension which has a stone façade on the interior. There are chancel chapels to the north and south; an organ is located in the north chapel, and a traceried screen separates the south chapel. The floors are throughout covered in encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton. The furnishings include oak pews, a reredos, and panelling.

The east window contains stained glass depicting the Ascension flanked by figures of Saints George, Michael, Luke, and John. North aisle windows, dating from 1861 to 1892 and created by different artists, are in similar styles, with figures against traceried backgrounds and a Renaissance style window inserted in 1929. South aisle windows, dated between 1895 and 1910, feature figures against a traceried and landscaped ground.