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 Church.

Church Of St George

WRENN ID
weathered-corridor-bittern
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St George is a parish church dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. It is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, featuring a brick clerestory and lead roofs. The building includes a west tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, and porches, as well as a north chancel chapel. The three-stage tower, built around 1445 and repaired in 1645, has four stages of diagonal buttresses and a three-light west window above a statue niche. It also features square traceried sound holes and belfry windows with four-centre arches, later mullions, and transoms. A clock face is located on the south side, and the tower is topped with a crenellated parapet adorned with lozenge flushwork and corner pinnacles.

The nave consists of four bays, with two three-light Perpendicular windows in the south aisle. A two-storey porch is attached to the west bay, featuring an outer doorway with a two-centre arch and carved spandrels, along with a two-light window above the door with a four-centre arch and a flushwork parapet. Inside, the porch has a tierceron-vault with a central boss depicting St. George. The north aisle contains 19th-century windows, while the nave has five clerestory windows with cusped Y-tracery.

The chancel is three bays long and features late Perpendicular three-light windows with triangular arches, a priests' door, and five clerestory windows with cusped Y-tracery and three-centre arches. The east window is also three-light Perpendicular. The north porch, now used as a chapel, is integrated into the west end of the aisle and has diagonal ribs springing from wall piers and ridge ribs. The polygonal arcade piers support three chamfered-order pointed arches, and the arch-braced roof has a single butt-purlin and ridge-piece, with braces springing from wall-posts supported on corbels.

The chancel roof features an arched-brace design with moulded butt-purlins and a ridge-piece, with braces forming a two-centre profile. The lower brace springs from wall-posts with 19th-century angel corbels, and wall-arches frame the clerestory window arches. Carved star-bosses are present on the purlins and ridge. The church also contains 18th and 19th-century wall monuments, including a 1617 monument to Thomas Anguish, featuring kneeling figures and children carrying skulls.

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