Church Of St George

TAMWORTH

SK20SW BAMFORD STREET, Glascote 670-1/4/29 (East side) Church of St. George

II

Church. 1880, porch 1918. By Basil Champneys. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roofs. Free Gothic style. Chancel with north vestry and south organ loft; saddleback crossing tower; 3-bay nave with north porch and south aisle. Chancel has moulded plinth, parapets and coped gable; high 3-light east window with reticulated tracery, hood mould with fleuron and flanking brattished pinnacles rising above coping; gabled vestry has end niche and square-headed east window of 3 pointed lights; organ loft has east entrance with hollow-chamfered jambs and shaped lintel, square-headed south window of 3 pointed lights. Tower has offset buttresses and north-west round stair turret, entrance with shouldered lintel and curved plank door; coped gables to west and east have 3-light louvred bell openings with intersecting tracery; hood moulds with fleurons and flanking brattished pinnacles, square-headed 2-light north and south windows. South aisle under catslide roof continuous with that to organ loft has square-headed windows of 3 pointed lights. Nave has 3 north windows of 3 lights with reticulated tracery under continuous hood, coped gable, 4-light west window with intersecting tracery, pinnacles and fleuron to hood. Gabled porch has pointed arch with continuous moulding; niche above has statue of St George with dragon to plinth and flanking pinnacles; 3-light side windows. INTERIOR: chancel has chamfered rib vault with boss, sedilium and piscina under ogee arches, crockets and fleurons; entrances with hollow-chamfered mouldings; similar vault to crossing, which has arches to east and west with continuous keeled roll moulding between 2 orders, arch to organ loft of one order; nave arcade of hollow-moulded arches on octagonal piers, sill courses. Fittings: chancel has reredos with foliate panels, simple wrought iron railings, plain stalls with open fronts; crossing has rails on bracketed timber posts; nave has timber pulpit with Tudor flower to cornice and small octagonal font with splayed base. Memorials: alabaster wall war memorial to nave; stained glass by Morris and Co: of 1903 to east window, depicting the four evangelists; of 1905 to nave north-east window. An early example of the free use of the Gothic style. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.135).

Listing NGR: SK2195603203

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