Church Of St George

The Church of St George is an early 14th-century church with a 15th-century west tower. The chancel was restored between 1860 and 1861 by Newman and Billing, while the tower was restored by R Wheeler in 1876. The building is constructed of random rubble and features plain tiled roofs. The tower has angle buttresses, a crenellated parapet, and a north-east turret. There is a passage through the tower that runs north-south on the ground floor, featuring a 3-bay rib-vault. This passage was originally designed to allow processions to circle the church without descending into the road to the west, known as 'The Square'.

The nave has gabled aisles, and the chancel has an east window that was inserted in 1958, reputedly from St Alban, Wood Street, City of London, and is a Gothic survival from 1633-34. All other windows have been renewed. The low south porch has an arched entrance and a vaulted interior, with a parvis chamber above.

Inside, the north aisle consists of 4 bays, while the south aisle has 3 bays that are respaced, both featuring circular arcade piers and double chamfered arches. The chancel arch is similar in style, and the chancel itself has 2 bays. The font is 13th-century, made of stone, and is octagonal with 2 shallow sunk arches on each face. The pulpit, made of stone with marble shafts, was created in 1861 and is supported by a group of angels. The rood screen dates from the 15th century and is made of wood with triple square-headed lights. There are two identical piscinas, one in the chancel and one in the south aisle, both featuring cinquefoiled ogee-arches and hood-moulds decorated with ball flowers. The reredos in the south aisle was made by Ninian Campen in 1907.

Benefaction boards under the tower date from the 18th century and feature a fern-leaf surround. There is also a wall painting in the chancel. The church contains several monuments, including brasses for Thomas Nysell (died 1498), John Burgoyn (circa 1500), Thomas Pekham (died 1512), Reynold Pekham (died 1525), Hames Pekham (died 1532), William Clarke (died 1611), and Elizabeth Crispe (died 1615). Wall monuments include a black marble slab for Robert Rychens (died 1588), which shows a kneeling family set in an alabaster framework, and a black tablet for Nicholas Miller, erected in 1661, which features a bust in an open pediment above. There is also a relief bust of Lucretia Betenson (died circa 1760) on a draped roundel in a concave surround, possibly by Nicholas Read.