Church Of St George

The Church of St George is an Anglican parish church with Methodist connections, dating back to the 16th century and extensively restored in 1860. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar limestone dressings, and has a stone slate roof. The building comprises a nave, a chancel with a south vestry, a west bellcote, and a north porch.

The gabled north porch has diagonal buttresses, a moulded Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould, and a coped verge with a finial. The north side of the nave features a 19th-century two-light square-headed window with cusped lights to the right, and a three-light segmental-pointed Perpendicular window with a hoodmould to the left of the porch. The north and south sides of the chancel have three-light square-headed windows with segmental-headed lights, while the east end exhibits diagonal buttresses and a 19th-century three-light window with reticulated tracery.

A 1877 half-octagonal south vestry is characterised by chamfered lancets and a stone stack. The south side of the nave has a blocked Tudor-arched doorway, a 19th-century two-light square-headed window to the left, and a three-light segmental-pointed Perpendicular window to the right. The west end displays diagonal buttresses, two 19th-century windows with reticulated tracery with hoodmoulds bearing foliage terminals, and a central pilaster buttress rising to a diagonally-set square bellcote with shouldered openings, diagonal buttresses, and a short pyramidal spire topped with a weathercock.

Inside, the porch has an inner Tudor-arched moulded doorway and a 19th-century boarded barrel-vaulted ceiling with carved bosses. The nave has a segmental-pointed stoup inside the door and a five-bay pointed barrel-vaulted boarded ceiling, similar to that in the porch. The chancel contains a pointed chancel arch with crocketed capitals and foliage mouldings, supported by half-cone corbels, and an arch-braced collar roof, all dating from the 19th century. Original features include a 15th-century octagonal font with quatrefoiled panels.

Furnishings include 19th-century seating, a communion rail, a circular stone pulpit on a plinth, and stained glass by Gibbs in the east window, dating from the 1880s. Other notable features are several monuments, including a large coloured marble to William Blagden of Littleton (died 1697), a tablet to Robert Bisse (died 1723), a classical marble tablet by King of Bath to James Matravers (died 1799) featuring a standing female figure with an urn, and a white marble tablet to William Bruges (died 1831) by Osmond of Sarum.