Church Of St George

The Church of St George is a parish church dating to circa 1300. A north transept was constructed in the late 14th to early 15th century. The tower underwent rebuilding between 1835 and 1843, with further alterations including the rebuilding of the West end of the nave, the addition of a West porch and an organ chamber, and a restoration in 1960-62 following World War II damage. The West windows were rebuilt in 1967. The church is built of roughcast tower with exposed quoins, North front buttresses, and squared and coursed and random rubble red sandstone on the South side and West end. It has coped verges, a gabled parapet to the West end with kneelers, and slate roofs.

The plan includes a chancel, South vestry, a three-bay nave, a North transept chapel, a South organ chamber, a South West tower, and a West porch. The two-stage crenellated tower has a two-light louvred bell opening and a 20th-century clock. A south door features a double-chamfered arch dying into the imposts, with 19th-century double doors. To the right of the door is a two-light window and a four-centred arch door to the organ chamber. A lancet window is present in the vestry, alongside stepped buttresses. The chancel has a lancet window and a four-light East window. Set back buttresses are present on the chancel, with two lancets between them on the North side. An angled projection is at the junction with the nave, masked externally by the vestry. The chapel has two-light windows on its East and North fronts, and a lancet window on its West front. The West end has tall lancets flanking a three-light window with a continuous hoodmould and tall stepped buttresses. A single-story porch sits below, featuring a gabled pediment and a 19th-century four-centred moulded doorway with a ribbed door, a similar inner door also being present.

The interior is rendered with a grooved finish to resemble ashlar in the nave. The nave has two unlit bays. The chancel boasts light-hearted plasterwork foliage decoration dating to circa 1835, including slender colonettes flanking openings, a foliage wall plate, and plasterwork angel bosses to the ribbed vaulted roof. A 19th-century ribbed barrel vault covers the North chapel. The nave roof is a 15th-century ribbed and plastered wagon roof with bosses. Other features include an octagonal font with trefoil-headed cusping, a 17th-century communion table used as a side altar, early 16th and early 17th-century bench ends reset in the 19th century, and a hatchment in the North transept chapel. This chapel previously contained an effigy of a late 13th-century cross-legged knight, thought to be Sir William Brett, who died in 1295; the effigy is now in the vestry. A slate and marble wall tablet to Zacharias Wyndam, who died in 1627, is set above the entrance to the vestry. A small amount of armorial glass dated 1743, belonging to another Wyndam, is set in the West window.