Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, possibly incorporating some 12th-century work. It was restored between 1871 and 1872 by J D Sedding. The building is constructed of red sandstone random rubble, with squared and coursed stone in the North aisle, and features 19th-century slate roofs, decorative ridge tiles, and coped verges.

The church has a four-bay nave, a chancel, a south porch, and a four-bay North aisle. The west tower is crenellated and consists of three stages with diagonal buttresses, a string course with gargoyles at the corners, a two-light bell opening, and a lancet window on the second stage. The west window is three-light, and there is a square crenellated stair turret on the northeast corner.

The nave features crenellated quatrefoils pierced with perlons, and to the right of the gabled two-storey porch is a four-light window with a Tudor arch head. The porch has crenellated returns with quatrefoil pierced perlons, a string course with gargoyles, and setback buttresses that are only lit on the right return. There is a large headstone with an eroded inscription on the left return, along with a 19th-century moulded opening and a niche with a statue above. The porch has a 19th-century door.

The chancel has four- and three-light windows flanking the priest's door, and a large five-light east window, although the lower portion is blocked with inserted decorative panels. The chancel features a steeply chamfered plinth, and the north wall has three-light windows between set-back buttresses, with crenellated pierced merlons and a door at the west end.

Inside, the church is rendered and has a standard Perpendicular arcade with piers featuring foliage capitals. The pointed tower arch is in three orders with a very large chamfer, and the rear is wave-moulded, with the lowest order possibly cut in. The 19th-century open ribbed wagon roofs are notable, as is a 12th-century pillar piscina located in the chancel. The altar is a stone slab with steeply chamfered corners, possibly the top of a chest tomb or a pre-Reformation altar.

There is a three-bay screen with double doors and fan vaulting, which has been much restored and is reputed to have come from Huish Champflower in 1726. The church also contains early 16th-century and early 20th-century bench ends, as well as a painted and gilded wall tablet commemorating John Sweeting of Thorncombe, who died in 1688.