Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church dating back to the medieval period, with significant restoration work carried out around 1870 and 1904. It comprises a nave, chancel, and a south porch, and formerly had a west tower. The church is largely constructed of flint rubble with stone dressings, with the chancel featuring knapped flint facing from around 1870 to its south and east sides. The roof is covered in plain tiles with ridge tiles.

The nave’s windows are primarily 14th century, featuring two-centred and pointed segmental arches, most of which are original. One renewed square-headed window is located on the south side. A moulded doorway at the west end retains its original doors with traces of tracery, and above it is a three-light window with cusped intersecting tracery. The west end was largely rebuilt around 1870, when a bell turret was added. A 14th century south doorway – also moulded – retains its original door.

The south porch, dating from around 1500, contains a moulded entrance arch on shafted jambs. Above the entrance is a blocked cusped niche, and there are small, incomplete two-light side windows. Inside, the church holds an original 1200 lancet window in the north chancel wall. The south chancel features two 14th and 15th century windows, the latter square-headed and original, and a restored Priest’s doorway with a narrow two-centred arch. The east window is a three-light window with reticulated tracery.

The interior includes a seven-bay hammerbeam nave roof, likely dating from the 15th century, with moulded and embattled ornament to the wallplates and hammerbeams. The braces between the hammerbeams and principal rafters have sweeping curves. The nave roof is said to have been re-roofed in 1904, with old materials, though the work may have been limited to the two western bays. The chancel roof is ceiled over, with moulded and embattled wallplates. A doorway to the former tower stair is found at the northwest of the nave, retaining its original door. Other features include a simple two-centre arched piscina and an adjacent drop-sill sedilia. The font, possibly from around 1400, has an octagonal bowl with traceried panels. A fine 15th century pulpit is carved with two ogee-arched panels on each side, with pierced quatrefoils below, and retains its original base. The reading desk re-uses late 16th century carved woodwork, and simple pine benches date from around 1870.