Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 December 1996. Church.

Church of St George

WRENN ID
upper-bailey-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Rhondda and Ogmore MP: Chris Bryant (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 December 1996
Type
Church
Address
Church of St George, Cwmparc, Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
SS 950 960
Coordinates
51.65355, -3.51881
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St George is a Grade II listed building designed in the Free Gothic style. It is constructed from snecked rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof adorned with crucifix finials. The church has a plan that includes a four-bay nave, a separately gabled south aisle, a flat-roofed southwest porch, and a lower three-bay chancel, which is accompanied by a large square tower at the southeast.

The west front showcases a pair of pointed arched two-light windows with perpendicular style tracery and hoodmoulds featuring simple stops, separated by a gabled buttress. Above these windows is an Early English style mandorla with cusped tracery. The southwest porch contains a four-centred arched doorway with decorative spandrels and later metal gates, along with a small moulded niche housing a freestanding figure of St George beneath a false half-gabled coping. The porch also has two three-light west windows with cusped tracery.

The south aisle, consisting of three bays, features three three-light windows with cusped heads set in square-headed frames, separated by tiered buttresses. This aisle culminates in a massive southeast tower with three storeys, each face having a single embrasure at the parapet. Below a bracketed string course, the belfry is characterized by wide shallow corner pilasters and cusped three-light louvred openings in square frames. The pilasters transition into tiered buttresses over the two lower storeys, which include a pair of cusped lancets at the ground floor on the south side, along with an entrance doorway and window to the east. The east end of the church features an unusual three-light window with small paired tracery lights in a stepped frame. The north frontage has single cusped lancets within square-headed frames for both the chancel and the east and west nave, with two triple-light windows in the central bays. The nave and chancel are divided by a tiered buttress and have a deep plinth.

Internally, the church is built of unplastered rubble with ashlar dressings. The south arcade features pointed moulded arches without capitals, while the chancel arch is wide and flanked by two narrow archways. The roof is an open timber hammer beam type. Notable chancel fittings include a pink alabaster reredos created by Halliday and carved by Clarke of Llandaff, along with an unusual corner piscina located in the southeast window splay.

Local climate

Church of St George sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Railway footbridge Grade II 907 m
  2. Park and Dare Workmen's Institute and Hall Grade II* 1.1 km
  3. Bethlehem Eglwys Presbyteraidd Cymru/ Bethlehem Welsh Presbyterian Chapel Grade II 1.2 km
  4. Ainon Capel y Bedyddwyr/ Ainon Welsh Baptist Chapel Grade II 1.2 km
  5. Fountain to SW of St. Peter's church Grade II 1.9 km
  6. St.Peter's Parish Church Grade II* 1.9 km
  7. Former Rhondda Borough Council Offices Grade II 2.0 km
  8. Bethesda Welsh Independent Chapel Grade II* 2.2 km
  9. Maindy and Eastern Workmen's Institute and Hall Grade II 2.2 km
  10. Brynfedwen House Grade II 2.4 km