Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St George

WRENN ID
proud-chapel-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St George, St George's Road, Millom
OS grid reference
SD 171 799
Coordinates
54.20888, -3.27176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St George is a Grade II listed church built between 1874 and 1877 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. It is constructed of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The church includes a nave with a gabled north aisle, a central tower with north transepts, a south vestry, and a chancel. Notable architectural details include sill courses, coped gables, and decorated tracery.

The 4-bay nave has two-light windows on the north side and a three-light window at the east end, along with two weathered buttresses. The west end features a five-light nave window set under a relieving arch, flanked by buttresses and topped with a gable cross, while the aisle has a two-light window. The south porch is gabled with diagonal buttresses and has a pointed entrance with continuous moulding and a quatrefoil frieze.

The tower is adorned with gabled angle buttresses and a northeast stair turret, featuring two south windows of two lights, paired two-light louvred bell openings, an embattled parapet with pinnacles, and a recessed octagonal spire with Incarnes. The transept showcases cusped blind arcading with small lights and spandrel cinquefoils, a traceried square window above, and large buttresses, along with a two-light east window.

The vestry has a lean-to roof, a straight-headed east light with rich mouldings, a south entrance, and a three-light window with plain coping. The chancel is topped with a traceried parapet and a gable cross, featuring a five-light east window with flanking buttresses and three-light windows on the north and south sides. Inside, the church has a five-bay north arcade and waggon roofs, although these were not inspected. The Church of St George stands as a prominent landmark in the area.

Local climate

Church of St George sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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