St Georges'S Church

St. George's Church is a medieval church, largely altered in approximately the 1890s. It comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, south porch, and north vestry. The main construction is of flint rubble with freestone dressings; some 19th-century work incorporates gault brick. The lower part of the south nave walling is Norman, featuring a slit window. The mid-14th century work includes a large, restored 3-light south window and a chancel arch with polygonal shafts, moulded capitals, and bases. A good late 14th-century south nave doorway has moulded jambs, carved decoration including trailing leaves, a hood-moulded ogee-head, and segmental internal hood-mould supported by head corbels. The north aisle was added in the 15th century, with a flat roof and crenellated parapets, two restored 3-light windows, a plain north doorway, and a triple nave arcade with attached circular shafts featuring moulded capitals and bases. The arcade roof has arch-braced principal rafters, cornice, and purlins. The south porch dates to the 15th century and contains an arched doorway and two 2-light windows with quatrefoils; one has a hand-carved figure on the inner reveal. The west tower, added around 1500 (referenced in a 1496 will), has three stages, crenellated parapets, crocketted finials, a lion-head gargoyle, two 2-light belfry openings, a polygonal stair-turret, a moulded west doorway, and a large 2-light window above. West diagonal buttresses feature an inscription in black mortar. The nave roof was raised in the early 16th century, with arch-braced cambered tie-beams, cornice, purlins, and a ridge, all moulded. The arch braces are vigorously carved, with traceried spandrels and wall pieces supported by stone corbels. Two hood-moulded clerestory windows and brick crenellated parapets are also present. A niche was inserted beside the chancel arch around 1500, originally with pilasters and panelled tracery; it now houses a 20th-century image. A mid-14th century octagonal font has a moulded base and traceried facets to the bowl. An early 17th-century octagonal oak pulpit is panelled with tracery and arcading. There is a set of nine 16th-century poppy-head pews with traceried backs, two of which have figures carved on the poppy-heads. Fragments of medieval stained glass depicting a knight in armour are in the south chancel window. Two marble floor slabs are in the chancel, one commemorating Revd. L. Wright (died 1802), and the other with an obscured epitaph (died 1771). A wall tablet is set in the external face of the south nave wall, dedicated to Robert Nune (died 1663).