Church of St George is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C15 and C16 Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- late-transept-brook
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, Colegate
- OS grid reference
- TG 229 090
- Coordinates
- 52.63322, 1.29392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a parish church dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, constructed of flint with stone dressings and featuring ashlar facing on the clerestory. It has lead roofs and includes a west tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a chancel chapel, and a south porch. The tower, built in 1458, has three stages and is supported by diagonal buttresses. It features a west door with a three-light window above, square sound holes with ornate tracery, and tall three-light belfry windows with four-centre arches. The crenellated parapet includes flushwork and shields set in lozenges. There is a two-storeyed porch attached to the tower. The nave consists of three bays and has four three-light perpendicular windows in the south aisle dating from around 1510, along with six three-light perpendicular clerestory windows with four-centre arches. The chancel is two bays long, with a single bay south chapel and a two-bay north chapel, both extending from the aisles.
Inside, there is a west gallery supported by Tuscan columns, and a notable tomb-chest of terra cotta dedicated to Robert Jannys from 1534. The nave roof is impressive, featuring cambered tie-beams on arched braces, with longitudinal arched braces above the windows that spring from wall-posts.
Local climate
Church of St George sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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