Church of St George is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. A Medieval Church.

Church of St George

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 January 1963
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a medieval parish church. The building consists of a short nave, a shallow south porch, a central tower with a staircase bay to the north, north and south transepts, and a chancel. The church is constructed of unrendered rubble with some ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with kneelers.

The tall nave has no windows on its north side, although signs of masonry alterations are visible. The west front features deep, stepped, angled, tooled buttresses and a central pointed, chamfered arched doorway with paired long lancet windows above. The gabled south porch has a pointed-arched doorway with a hoodmould and a text plaque above. Inside the porch, there is a medieval arch-braced truss with two rows of purlins, stone benches, a flagged floor, and iron gates with spear finials. The pointed arched, chamfered, and stopped south doorway has a battened door. The tower has coped gables and a matching string-course below to each face, topped by unusual 19th-century four-branched foliated finials, with a weather vane rising from the centre. A louvred two-light belfry opening with chunky Perpendicular tracery is positioned on the south side; a single cusped light is on the north and east, and slit lights are below. The staircase tower, with a shallow-pitched roof set in the angle between the north nave and transept, contains a slit window and a very narrow pointed-arched doorway with a hoodmould. The south nave window comprises three cusped lights within a square frame with a hoodmould. The lower, gabled transepts feature square-headed windows with trefoil-headed lights: three lights to the north, two lights to the south, and a single light to the east. The chancel, which is substantially lower than the nave, has a pointed arched priests' door and sanctuary windows – two lights to the south, a single light to the north - and a 19th-century east window of Geometric tracery, along with angle buttresses and a further buttress on the north wall.

The interior is rendered and whitewashed, with plain, steeply pointed crossing arches and a thin ribbed plaster vault, dating from a 19th-century reconstruction. There is a medieval wagon roof with square bosses in the nave, and a medieval arch-braced roof in the south transept. Two tomb recesses are located in the chancel; one has a segmental arch with two rolls and a hood with headstops wearing chain mail helmets, dating from the 14th century, and the other is larger, with cusping and a hoodmould, being slightly later in date. An octagonal font dates from the 15th century. The church contains 18th and 19th-century wall monuments, including one commemorating the rebuilding of the church by John Montgomery Traherne. A Traherne family pew is located in the south transept, and there is a late 19th-century chamber organ from Coedarhydyglyn. Coats of Arms of earlier Lords of the Manor are displayed, including that of Le Fleming, owner of the Castle of St Georges.

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