Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- sheer-panel-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, Church Track, Bourton
- OS grid reference
- ST 768 303
- Coordinates
- 51.07165, -2.33202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George is a parish church primarily built between 1877 and 1878, although it likely includes some work from 1812. The tower was added later, between 1903 and 1905. The 1877/8 construction was carried out by E Christian, while the tower was designed by C E Ponting. The church is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs that are gabled over the nave and hipped over the chancel, which has an apsidal shape. The overall architectural style is 'perpendicular'.
The church's layout includes a nave, chancel, west tower, south organ chamber, and south porch. The tower consists of two stages, topped with an embattled parapet and corner crocketted pinnacles that rise from the second stage. It features a two-centred west door with a moulded returned label, a two-light, two-centred west window with a returned label, and ogee-headed bell openings with finials and louvres, paired on the east and west sides. The nave and organ chamber windows have two lights with two-centred heads and returned labels, while the north and south chancel windows are similar to those in the nave. The apse windows contain single lights with flowing tracery. The nave and organ chamber are supported by diagonal buttresses at the corners and square set buttresses between the windows.
The gabled porch has an ashlar south face and a two-centred doorway with a returned label. Inside, there is a two-centred moulded chancel arch with semi-octagonal responds that have capitals and bases, and a label with foliage carved stops above. The tower arch is also two-centred with semi-octagonal responds. The organ chamber arch springs from corbels and is two-centred as well. The nave features an arch-braced hammer-beam roof with arch-braced collars and king-posts, while the chancel has a ribbed and boarded roof. Other interior elements include a 19th-century or early 20th-century traceried pulpit, an octagonal font from the same period with carved panels on a panelled octagonal pier, several reset early 19th-century monuments, and 19th-century and early 20th-century stained glass. The chancel is adorned with encaustic tiles from the 19th century, and most other fittings date from the 19th or early 20th century.
Local climate
Church of St George receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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