Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a church constructed in 1933, designed by Seely and Paget and built by the Cambridge builders Rattee and Kett. It is built of knapped flint with narrow red brick and tile dressings and panels, topped by a hipped pantile roof. The building comprises a nave and chancel under a single roof, a west tower, and a vestry. It is designed in a Neo-Georgian style, incorporating eaves coving and Crittall metal windows with intersecting tracery heads. The east window is wide with a basket-arched head and a brick panel below, leading to a narrower, projecting chancel also covered by the hipped roof. The nave has four windows on each side, each with a round-arched head and brick panels beneath. The three-stage west tower incorporates a buttress with pantiled set-offs. The south face features a church doorway with a round-arched head and double doors, with loop holes above. The top stage has paired bell-chamber openings beneath a pyramidal pantiled roof with a north-east angle stack. A lean-to roofed vestry is located to the rear.

The interior's austere, barrel-vaulted space is notable for fine oak panelling in the sanctuary, featuring reeded pilasters. There is a wooden altar supported on an open arcade, along with panelled priest's and reader's pews, and communion rails with turned balusters. The nave contains a complete set of fitted oak pews integrated with a wall dado, and a wooden cornice runs around the interior. At the west end, an aedicule incorporates a pair of probably 17th or 18th century Solomonic columns under a broken round pediment. Inside this is a small moulded metal font, standing on an octagonal wooden pedestal.

Plaques commemorate the construction of the church in memory of W.H.B. Hall and A.C. Hall. An external plaque to the left of the door records the laying of the foundation stone on 1st April 1933 by Mrs. Favell Helen Hall, who funded the church’s construction; she was John Seely's godmother. This is a carefully crafted church, notable for its fine brickwork of thin bricks and tiles and the quality of its knapped flintwork. The simple interior includes fine woodwork and complete fittings. The church is an unaltered example of an interwar church in the Neo-Georgian style.