St George’s Church

St George’s Church is a 19th-century church constructed of squared ironstone with a slate roof, featuring minimal Bathstone detail to the west elevation and tower. The church consists of a galleried nave, a short chancel, and a west tower containing the entrance. The four-stage west tower is distinguished by a stringcourse that runs above the impost level of the west door, continuing to the sills of the nave windows, and another string below the belfry stage. A low, corbelled parapet tops the tower. Belfry windows have two round-arched lights on shafts with cushion capitals, united by a continuous hoodmould, and small roundels with radiating glazing are set into each face of the second floor. The first floor features tall round-arched single-light windows with tall shafts and small-paned glazing. The two-order west door has sawtooth detailing on the outer arch and chevrons on the inner arch, with shafts and foliage capitals. It is fitted with boarded and studded doors with branched hinges. The north and south elevations of the nave are each seven bays long, with tall round-arched recessed windows with continuous hoodmoulds and a similar window above a round-arched doorway on the west-facing flanks. The east end of the nave and the chancel are rendered. The chancel has a plain east triplet, a smaller triplet below to a basement, and a small lean-to to the south.

Inside, a gallery runs along both long sides on thick iron columns with scalloped caps, featuring a simple repeated pattern of short shafts with lozenges above. The gallery is curtailed at the west end, creating a first-floor room. The church has a simple, flat ribbed roof. A large, painted, two-order Neo-Norman chancel arch is decorated with guilloche and double-chevron detail, with shafts having carved capitals. The gallery stairs are located off the east end of the nave to the north and south. A separate stair rises from the tower vestibule, with side flights merging into a central flight above the inner door, supported by columns with scalloped caps. The church contains several high-quality monuments, including one to Alfred Homfray, surgeon to Tredegar Ironworks, featuring a relief portrait in a roundel by John Evan Thomas; one to Mary Davis, wife of the Ironworks manager and promoter of the town clock, depicting a kneeling woman, children and an urn by J Edwards; and one to William Bevan, principal agent of the Ironworks, showing a relief portrait of Bevan flanked by seated mourning figures by E. W. Wyon of London. The east window, dated 1967 and depicting the Ascension, is a work by Maile & Son.