Garrison Church Of St Michael And St George

Garrison Church of St Michael and St George is a brick building with stone dressings and a tiled roof, dating to 1892. It was designed by Pitt and Michie, with a vestry added in the mid-20th century. The church is in an Early English Gothic Revival style and has a cruciform plan, incorporating an aisled nave with north and south porches to the west end, transepts, a central west tower, and a chancel.

The exterior features coped gables and articulated sides with flat-headed sunken panels and double bottom steps with corbelled heads. The east gable has three tall lancet windows with an ashlar cill and impost bands, an oculus, and a long flat-roofed vestry with a north-side exterior stack. The north transept gable incorporates lower lancet windows, paired lancets above, and a short, right-hand round stair tower with a conical ashlar roof and porch with a two-centre arched doorway. The north aisle has six bays with single lancet windows, and the clerestory has three lancets per bay. A gabled west porch provides steps up to a two-centre arched doorway. The central tower to the west end is set forward on a stepped plinth, with a recessed two-centre arched doorway, flat-headed doors on either side, and a tympanum depicting a kneeling figure of St George with a sword. The tower’s third stage contains paired lancets, and the belfry has paired louvred openings. A shingled, broach spire features shallow lucarnes with paired louvred openings and a finial. A half-octagonal two-stage stair tower rises on the south side of the tower, topped with ashlar. The south side mirrors the north, with the transept featuring clasping buttresses, a lower arcade of blind lancets with alternating glazed lights, and upper lancets separated by lower blind lancets.

Inside, the nave has moulded octagonal piers rising to two-centre arches, and a timber barrel vault. The clerestory windows have rere arches on round columns. A semi-circular arch leads to the three-bay chancel, which includes painted spandrels, and banded columns supporting rere arches to the east window. Originally St George's Catholic Garrison Church, the building’s history is documented in Childerhouse’s Military Aldershot, the first fifty years.