This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
In the entry for: BEBINGTON ST. GEORGE'S WAY SJ 38 SW (north side) Thornton Hough 16/254 St. George's United Reformed Church
GV II
The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*
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BEBINGTON ST. GEORGE'S WAY SJ 38 SW (north side) Thornton Hough 16/254 St. George's United Reformed Church
G.V. II
Congregational, now United Reformed Church. 1906-7. By J. Lomax Simpson,for Lord Leverhulme. Stone with stone slate roof. Nave, transepts, crossing tower, chancel, south vestry. Romanesque style. 5-bay nave, sill course flat buttresses and corbel table. Windows of 3 round-headed lights with colonnettes and tympana, eastern windows of 2 lights with decorated tympana. Western gabled porches with round-headed entrances of 3 orders, doors with elaborate iron strap hinges. West end has 3-light window, tympanum with interlacing. Transepts have angle buttresses, paired round-headed lights and flanking 3-bay blind arcading, round window with zig-zag moulding above. Tower angle buttresses with nook shafts, bell stage has sill course, 3-bay blind arcade with central 2-light louvred openings, clasping buttresses, corbelled parapet and recessed pyramidal roof.
Octagonal turret to south east has blind arcading and pyramidal roof. Chancel has round apse, 5 windows, buttresses with nook shafts, window to north and south.
Vestry has parapet, 5 windows beween paired shafts; lateral stack and entrance. North porch to chancel has gabled east end with entrance, organ loft has 6-bay blind arcade with 2 windows, drip mould with bosses, gable with small window.
Interior: Waggon roof with tie beams. Crossing arches on paired responds, interlace arcading to chancel. Much carving, biblical scenes to capitals. Screen to west end of nave, pulpit and choir stalls, round font are richly decorated.
Listing NGR: SJ3045480977
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0124 IOE Records taken by Bryan F Basketter; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr F. Bryan Basketter. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Basketter, F. Bryan
Rights Holder: Basketter, F. Bryan
Stone, Victorian Congregational Chapel, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Nonconformist Chapel, Chapel, Place Of Worship, United Reformed Church
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