Roman Catholic Church Of St George

The Roman Catholic Church of St George was built between 1846 and 1848 by Hansom or W.W. Wardell. It is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with limestone ashlar dressings, and has a mid-20th century tile roof and a limestone ashlar stack. The church includes a chancel with two chapels, a nave, a vestry and a porch to the south, and a west bellcote. It is designed in the 13th century Gothic style.

The double-gabled east wall has one central and two angle offset buttresses. To the left is a Geometrical style two-light window, and to the right a three-light window with Kentish tracery. The south wall of the chancel has a Geometrical style two-light window. The vestry has a four-light window with cusped heads to the east, a gabled external stack and a gabled porch with a chamfered and stopped architrave to the west doorway. The north wall of the chancel features two two-light windows with Kentish tracery, divided by a central offset buttress, and has a gabled porch to a doorway to the west. The west wall of the north chapel projects beyond the nave and has a two-light window with Kentish tracery. The three-bay nave has Geometrical style two-light windows, divided by offset buttresses. The south porch features a figure of Christ in a cusped niche at the top, a double chamfered arch to the doorway, flanked by corner buttresses with gablets, and quatrefoils framing one-light windows on each side wall. The west wall of the nave has two Curvilinear style two-light windows, divided by a central offset buttress with a Decorated style niche at the top, surmounted by a bellcote.

Inside, the church features a beautifully carved Decorated style reredos with six angels flanking the figure of Christ, and a stone high altar. There are trefoil-headed niches over a piscina, three stepped sedilia, and an aumbry. Finely carved corbels support carved figures of angels, and a brattished cornice runs along the coffered roof. The south chapel of the chancel is divided from the north chapel by a two-bay arcade of double chamfered arches. A simple piscina has a corbel which supports a figure of St. Francis, and a brattished cornice runs along the brightly coloured coffered roof. The chancel arch has a cyma-moulded architrave. The nave retains original benches, an octagonal font, and wall tablets depicting scenes from the Passion, along with carved figures of the Virgin and Child set in decorated surrounds. A canopy is located in the north-east corner, and the nave has a scissor-truss roof.