Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a brick church with ashlar dressings and tile roofs, dating from 1880, with a porch added in 1918. It was designed by Basil Champneys in a Free Gothic style. The church comprises a chancel with a north vestry and a south organ loft, a saddleback crossing tower, a three-bay nave with a north porch and a south aisle. The chancel features a moulded plinth, parapets, and coped gable, with a high three-light east window containing reticulated tracery, a hood mould with fleuron and flanking brattished pinnacles rising above the coping. The vestry has an end niche and a square-headed east window of three pointed lights. The organ loft has an east entrance with hollow-chamfered jambs and a shaped lintel, and a square-headed south window of three pointed lights. The crossing tower has offset buttresses and a round stair turret to the north-west, an entrance with a shouldered lintel and a curved plank door, and coped gables to the west and east with three-light louvred bell openings featuring intersecting tracery, accompanied by hood moulds with fleurons and flanked by brattished pinnacles. It also has square-headed two-light north and south windows. The south aisle, under a catslide roof continuous with that of the organ loft, has square-headed windows of three pointed lights. The nave has three north windows of three lights, also with reticulated tracery, under a continuous hood with a coped gable; a four-light west window with intersecting tracery, pinnacles, and fleuron to the hood. The gabled porch has a pointed arch with continuous moulding, a niche above containing a statue of St George with a dragon on the plinth and flanking pinnacles, and three-light side windows.

Inside, the chancel features a chamfered rib vault with a boss, a sedilium, and a piscina under ogee arches with crockets and fleurons. The entrances have hollow-chamfered mouldings. A similar vault covers the crossing, which has arches to the east and west with a continuous keeled roll moulding between two orders; the arch to the organ loft is of one order. The nave arcade has hollow-moulded arches on octagonal piers, with sill courses. The fittings include a reredos with foliate panels, simple wrought iron railings, plain stalls with open fronts, rails on bracketed timber posts in the crossing, a timber pulpit with a Tudor flower to the cornice, and a small octagonal font with a splayed base. A memorial war memorial in alabaster is located in the nave. Stained glass by Morris and Co. from 1903 depicts the four evangelists in the east window, and stained glass from 1905 is in the north-east nave window. The church is considered an early example of the free use of the Gothic style.