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
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1996
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
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.
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