Church of St George
Church of St George, Queen Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1219946
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St George, Queen Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1219946
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St George, Queen Street
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St George, Queen Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85059 46336
Details
SJ8546SW
644-1/9/51
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
QUEEN STREET (West side)
Church of St George
21/10/49
GV
II*
Church. 1828. By Francis Bedford, built as a Commissioners Church, and designated as Parish Church in 1856. Coursed and squared rubble facing to brick structure. West tower, nave with two aisles under a single span, chancel. Narrow tower is enclosed by aisles, with only the polygonal angle buttresses projecting from the west wall. Three principal stages, with four-centred arched doorway and long two-light window over, and paired bell chamber lights. Embattled parapet and crocketed angle pinnacles. Aisles to north and south articulated into six bays divided by buttresses capped with crocketed pinnacles between eaves parapet. Two-light Late Decorated style windows, and blind arcading in west walls. North porch a later addition with heavy parapet and buttresses. Blocked south door now a window. Chancel partly a later addition with five-light east window with foiled circle. Iron entrance gates and railings in eastern tooled sandstone retaining wall.
INTERIOR: a single space, scarcely divided by slender clustered shafts to four-bay arcade, supporting rib vaulting over nave and aisles. Western gallery with arcade of three principal and two narrow arches carried on blind arches below. Chancel has boarded roof with single ornate truss with pendants. Scalloped arch carried on short corbelled piers to later chancel extension, stone faced on interior. Chancel chapels to north and south, with organ to north and traceried screen separating south chapel. Floors throughout have encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton. Oak pews, reredos and panelling.
Stained glass: east window has the Ascension flanked by figures of Saints George, Michael, Luke and John. North aisle windows 1861-1892 in similar styles, though by different artists, with figures on traceried grounds, and a Rennaissance style window of 1929. South aisle windows 1895-1910, with figures against a traceried and landscaped ground.
Listing NGR: SJ8505946336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385967
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jenkins, J G, A History of Newcastle Under Lyme, (1983)
Briggs, J, St George's Newcastle Under Lyme 1828-1978, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
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