Church of St George (Church of England)

Church of St George is a Grade II listed Church of England building constructed of coursed rock-faced stone with sandstone and limestone dressings. The roofs are laid in Westmorland slate in random and diminishing courses with lead parapets and guttering, and there is a stone boiler flue to the west.

The church comprises a short chancel, sanctuary and an unfinished west end. Both the north and south aisles follow the same composition, with two central high gabled bays featuring large decorated tracery windows, flanked by shorter standard bays with trefoil-headed tripartite windows. The chancel has single trefoil-headed windows to the north and south, and a large Gothic window with perpendicular influenced tracery at its east end. The gable cross to the chancel arch survives, though the one to the chancel gable has been lost. To the north of the chancel, the east gable wall of the nave has a pointed arch entrance with an oak plank door. The west gable is filled with a brick infill wall between the footings of the intended tower, against which stands an oak half-timbered porch roofed in Welsh slate. A projecting timbered bell turret sits above these, containing a bell dating to around 1350.

Interior features include a choir at the east end of the nave, a vestry at the east end of the north aisle, and an organ at the east end of the south aisle. A Norman tub font sits within the south aisle, adjacent to which is a bell dating to around 1250 with an oak headstock. The nave roof is of oak with crown trusses, purlins, exposed rafters and plain plaster infill panels. The aisles and chancel employ similar construction without crown posts. The walls are rendered in honey-coloured lime mix with hair reinforcement, and the floor throughout is of herringbone woodblock. The oil lamps and electric light fittings are original to the rebuild.

The south aisle incorporates 13th-century piers and arches in a pattern of round, octagonal, round, with octagonal half piers at either end; this design is reflected in the north aisle using modern stonework. The half piers to the chancel arch are rounded. Wall panelling to both aisles comprises 17th-century pew ends set as a dado, featuring acorn finials with a decorative carved band of intertwining round-headed arches and foliage motifs. The oak choir stalls match the Jacobean pew ends, incorporating acorn finials and identical decorative bands. Other wooden fixtures including the pulpit, lectern and vestry screen incorporate wood panelling with varying foliage detailing. The lectern features acorn finials, whilst the vestry screen bears the lettering "In Memoriam John V Lord Hotham and Frederick William VIth Lord Hotham" with a band of grapes and "R.I.P." below. The organ originally came from Pickering Church and sits within an oak panelled case with a trefoil-decorated cornice band and elaborately stencilled pipes.

All windows except one feature plain leaded glazing dating to the rebuild. A stained glass memorial window on the north side of the chancel commemorates Sidney Armstrong who died in the Great War. The foundation stone in the cill of the westernmost window of the south aisle is inscribed "This Church was rebuilt by John Lord Hotham and Frederick William Lord Hotham and completed in the year of our Lord 1922."

The churchyard is bounded by a dry stone wall with stone capping set in mortar. Carved stones from the earlier church are stacked to the south east side of the plot, forming part of the wall. The section fronting the street was rebuilt in the late 20th century and is not of special interest.