Church Of St George

The Church of St George is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, largely rebuilt and restored in 1871-72 by Ewan Christian, who replaced an earlier church designed by Edward Bridges in 1827. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel with a vestry. It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, and has slate roofs behind embattled parapets.

The west tower is an unusual three-stage structure with set-back buttresses, an embattled parapet with blank arcading and image niches on each side, and pinnacles. The bell chamber has two-light openings with ogee heads to the tracery. The second stage windows are also two-light, with transoms and ogee heads to the lights. The tracery incorporates small quatrefoiled circles in the spandrels of the lower lights, with louvres to the upper lights. A projecting polygonal stair turret is located at the north-east, and features blank arcading, an embattled parapet, and a spire. The nave has three two-light windows with cusped heads. The north and south aisles feature two- and three-light windows with thin tracery, along with rainwater heads dated 1871, and lean-to roofs. A projecting gabled south porch is characterized by diagonal buttresses.

Inside, the three-bay arcade has hollow chamfered arches and octagonal shafts. A 14th-century tower arch consists of four chamfered orders on a semi-octagonal respond, with an ogee-headed doorway leading to the stair turret on the north pier. All fixtures are from 1871-72. The font, pulpit, and reredos are of elaborately detailed marble, with figure scenes on the pulpit and reredos. Several monuments are present, including those to Roger Soudon (died 1703), Thomas Morgan (died 1723), Mary Morgan (died 1710 and 1701), and Cordelia Wilkins (died 1774), the last being by Allen of Bristol. The Roger Soudon monument features ashlar, Corinthian columns on gadrooned bases, a half-relief of Soudon in clerical dress, cherubs, and a skull. The Thomas Morgan monument has a similar style with fluted columns and heraldry. The Mary Morgan monument is baroque in style, with ashlar, Corinthian columns on grotesque corbels, a segmental pediment, and heraldry.