Church Of St George

The Church of St George is an Anglican church located on St George's Road in Truro. It was consecrated in 1855 by Bishop Philpots and designed by the Reverend William Haslam. The building is constructed from local rubble with granite dressings and features dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables on the transepts and a polygonal roof on the chancel, adorned with crested ridge tiles. The church has a cruciform plan with an apsidal-ended chancel, a north porch, and a square west tower, all designed in the Early English style.

The elevations remain unaltered, showcasing lancets and pairs of lancets, except for three stepped lancets on the north and south walls of the transept. Notable architectural details include a pointed-arched doorway to the porch, a shouldered-headed doorway to the stair turret, and a pointed-arched doorway on the south wall of the tower, complemented by angle buttresses. The three-stage west tower features angle buttresses on the lower stages, an octagonal stair turret at the northeast corner, string courses, and crocketed corner pinnacles above a plain parapet. The bell-storey has paired lancets with louvres.

Inside, the church is lofty and well-lit, boasting a fine quality scissor-braced and wind-braced roof structure, with principal trusses springing from posts on stone corbels. The high moulded chancel arch rises from shafted abutments with carved imposts. The fittings include a probably original painted freestone pulpit and pitch-pine benches. Memorial windows with coloured glass are present, including one at the east end of the south wall dedicated to Julia A H Retallack, who died in 1873 at the age of 56, and another to P E Trench from 1855. Additionally, there is a window on the north wall west of the choir dedicated to T J Lobb from 1897.

This church replaces an earlier wooden church built in 1849 on City Road, which was designed by a "Mr White," likely William White, a noted ecclesiological architect and friend of Reverend William Haslam.