Church of St George is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1961. A Medieval Church.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- peeling-tower-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1961
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St George, Church Road, Pill and Easton-In-Gordano
- OS grid reference
- ST 514 757
- Coordinates
- 51.47857, -2.70085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Church of St George receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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