Parish Church Of Saint George

The Parish Church of Saint George is an Anglican parish church located on High Street in Langton Matravers. The tower dates from the mid-15th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt between 1875 and 1876, designed by architect G. Crickmay. The tower is constructed of rubble stone, and the main body of the church features rock-faced ashlar walls. The roofs are tiled with coped gables for the nave, chancel, chapel, and porch, while the aisles and tower have flat roofs with parapets.

The church comprises a nave, north and south aisles of four bays, a chancel, a south chapel, a vestry, an organ chamber, a west tower, and a south porch. There is a large 20th-century vestry extension made of stone with a flat roof, located to the north of the chancel. The tower has two stages, with angle buttresses and a battlemented parapet, and features an octagonal stair turret on the south side. The belfry has two-light traceried windows with stone louvres, and the west doorway has been altered and raised, flanked by stone corbels, with a panelled door and fanlight.

The north and south aisles contain three-light traceried windows, while the south wall of the chapel has two plain lancets. The chancel's east window consists of three stepped lancets, with the central one being traceried. The east and west porch walls have paired lancets with inner rere-arches and shafts. The internal walls are fairfaced, and on the west wall of the nave, which is also the east wall of the tower, there is evidence of two earlier roof lines. The ridge of the present nave roof is above the top of the tower.

The nave arcades feature plain circular columns with moulded caps, and the clerestory has paired trefoiled lancets. The nave has a hammerbeam roof supported by Purbeck marble shafts. There is a two-bay arcade on each side of the chancel, also with Purbeck marble shafts and foliage capitals. The font is 13th-century, octagonal, and stands on an octagonal base with attached shafts. All other fittings date from the 19th century.