Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church largely dating to the 14th century, with significant additions from the 15th century, including the west steeple. It is constructed primarily of flint and clunch, with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs.

The prominent west tower features three stages with stepped angle buttresses. A west door is situated beneath a square hood, embellished with shields in the spandrels, and above it is a four-light Perpendicular window. The ringing chamber is lit by lancets; the south side includes a clock face inscribed "Man Know Thyself." A set-back belfry stage has two-light reticulated and louvred windows. Crenellations run along the parapet, with corner pinnacles. From the tower rises a four-stage octagonal turret, which supports a crocketed spire. The lower stage of the turret is blank; the second has a three-bay arcade of cusped arches; the third stage mirrors the second but with the central bays open and louvred; and the fourth is an open parapet. Thin triangular buttresses define the corners of each face.

The aisles are supported by angle buttresses to the west, and have three-light panelled west windows. A gabled south porch, with a parapet and diagonal buttresses, has a plinth course and moulded archway. Flanking windows are ogeed and cusped, set under square hoods. A wall sundial dated 1721 is set in the gable head. A holy water stoup is positioned to the right of the entrance. Three-light aisle windows are characterised by ogee lights below panel tracery, and a rebuilt brick parapet tops the north aisle, which is similarly lit with arched windows and transoms. The north side also features an arched priests' door and parapet. A clerestory runs along the nave, consisting of four three-light basket-arched windows positioned under brick relieving arches, with a rebuilt brick parapet and three figurative gargoyles to the south, and three animal gargoyles to the north. A repaired bellcote is located at the south-east of the nave. The south chancel windows are two-light with depressed four-centred arches and an arched priests' door. Angle buttresses exist to the east, while the flanks are flat. The eastern elevation features a three-light 14th-century east window with petal tracery, and a single two-light window is located to the north.

The interior boasts a four-bay arcade spanned by lozenge piers on high bases, leading to continuous roll and hollow arches. Figurative capitals enliven the east and west reponds, and the clerestory windows align with the apexes of the arches. A tall tower arch is similar in style. The chancel has a double chamfered 14th-century arch. The 15th-century nave roof is constructed of alternate tie and hammer beams. The ties, on arched braces that descend to head corbels, have spandrels pierced with panel tracery. The tie beams are decorated with shields, angels, billet moulding, and crested ornamentation, and support Queen posts and subsidiary cinquefoiled pierced panels to the moulded principals. The hammer beams are shaped as full-length flights of carved angels (one of which depicts mining). Moulded butt purlins and a ridge piece complete the roof. Aisle roofs have arched braces on wall posts and head corbels, with moulded principals and butt purlins. The chancel roof is a boarded 19th-century construction with arched braces dropping to head corbels. Original features include two pairs of 15th-century poppyhead bench ends and a cusped ogee piscina. A rood screen was added in 1909. A brass memorial to Sir Adam de Clifton (1367), depicting a full-length figure in chequered armour below a cusped and sub-cusped canopy, is also present.