Church of St George

The Church of St George is a Perpendicular style building, likely dating from the 18th century, constructed of coursed and squared rock-faced rubble with sandstone dressings and a plain tiled roof. It follows a cruciform plan, incorporating a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, two aisles, transepts, and a chancel. The west tower is undivided, featuring clasping buttresses and an embattled parapet. A three-light window, set within a chamfered arch, illuminates the west side, with a similar window on the north side. The tower displays sunk pilasters and flat-headed three-light windows with hood moulds, topped by a shallow pyramidal roof on a louvred base. The aisles have a flat roof, delineated by buttresses forming four bays, with a three-light window in each bay. A gabled north porch has a chamfered archway, while a plain chamfered doorway is located on the south side. The clerestory also features three-light flat-headed windows. The transepts accommodate a vestry to the north and a Lady Chapel to the south, each featuring a high-set four-light window. The chancel has three-light windows on its north and south sides and a seven-light east window with panel tracery, culminating in a fleuron at the arch’s crest that forms a rib to the finial of the gable.

Inside, a high pointed arch with plain responds marks the west bay beneath the tower. The nave arcade, comprised of four bays, exhibits deeply moulded, shallow arches on clustered shafts, a Perpendicular style likely derived from the mother church of Saint Trillo. A four-centred chancel arch with plain responds leads to the chancel itself. The roof structure incorporates plain cambered trusses springing from wall-posts and a plain boarded ceiling. A delicate, two-tiered, traceried timber chancel screen includes a vaulted canopy, while a simpler screen divides the Lady Chapel from the south aisle. An octagonal pulpit features rich carving with linen-fold, open-work tracery, niches containing angelic figures, and ornate communion rails incorporating statues in niches and roses in wrought iron panels. Linen-fold panels, set within Perpendicular traceried wall panelling featuring a vine-scroll frieze, adorn the sanctuary. The altar and reredos form a unified composition erected in memory of Louisa Chambres in 1913. The altar has a traceried, panelled frontal that vaults outwards to a traceried, open-work ‘valence’. The reredos depicts a low relief of The Last Supper flanked by statues of Saints George and Trillo, set behind an intricate openwork vinescroll and foliate frieze, with shallow canted side pieces suggestive of a triptych. The Lady Chapel also features an oak altar and reredos, similarly detailed but slightly simplified.

Stained glass is predominantly a series of war memorials. The east window, erected through public subscription, portrays a depiction of the crucifixion, potentially derived from the east window in the mother church of Saint Trillo. The east window of the Lady Chapel, also a war memorial and from the same studio, complements the series. Most of the south aisle windows also serve as private war memorials. Only one of the windows is signed – A O Hemming, of London.