Church Of St George The Martyr

The Church of St George the Martyr is an Anglican church built in 1843 by H. Wyatt and David Brandon, in the Early English style. Extensions were added in 1895 by J. Oldrid Scott, consisting of double transepts, a choir vestry, and an organ chamber. Further work by J.O. Scott in 1902 extended the choir vestry and chancel by one bay. 20th-century alterations include a large round west window inserted in 1954 and a re-ordering in 1975. The church is constructed of coursed, squared local limestone with red sandstone dressings from Hollington, Staffordshire, with a plain tile roof, a lead roof to the vestry, and a slate-hung spire.

The plan comprises a chancel, organ chamber located to the south of the chancel, a vestry to the north, a tower northeast of the nave, and double transepts serving as aisles to the north and south of the nave.

The west front features a pointed arched doorway, a pair of lancet windows above, and a large rose window inserted in 1954 using ironstone from Hornton, Warwickshire. Nave and transepts have lancet windows; those to the transept ends are paired and linked by a bay of blank arcade. Each transept gable has a circular sexfoiled window. The three-stage northeast tower has a doorway to the north with a pointed arch and shafting, small trefoiled windows above the doorway, and two-light bellchamber openings with attached shafts bearing foliage capitals and Y tracery. A corbel table supports a broach spire, slate-hung. The chancel has lancet windows to the north and south sides and a five-light east window featuring small trefoiled circles and a hood mould with carved head label stops. The north vestry has paired windows with Caernarvon-arched heads. The former south vestry has blocked windows, and the link between the vestry and transept has a three-light window with trefoiled heads to the lights. Diagonal set-off buttresses are found on the transepts, and offset angle buttresses on the chancel. Stone-coped gables are present throughout, with a carved lion conchant terminating the north gable at the east end of the nave, on the tower.

The interior features Farleigh Down Bath stone dressings and arcade piers of Forest of Dean grey stone, with moulded caps and bases of Portland stone. A west gallery is supported by timber posts, with a clock in the center of the gallery front. The nave roof has prominent tie beam trusses. A carved oak rood screen was completed in 1922 by J. O. Scott. Mosaic panels in the west wall of the chancel, dating to the mid-19th century, have been re-set from a former reredos. Stained glass windows are by Powells of Whitefriars, and earlier 19th-century stained glass from the original east window is in the side windows of the chancel.