CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232286
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, LONDON ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poynton-with-Worth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 91894 83584
Details
SJ 98 SW POYNTON-WITH-WORTH C.P. LONDON ROAD (West Side)
3/107 Church of St. George
II
Church, 1858-9 by Crowther, south steeple 1884-5 by Medland and Henry
Taylor. Late C13 style. Coursed rubble, steeply-pitched slate roof.
Nave, two aisles, chancel, porch on south side with steeple in SE
corner. Aisle of 5 bays with simple 2-light cusped windows but
clerestorey of 6 bays with alternative circular and 2-light cusped
windows. Buttresses with offsets and gable crosses. West end of nave
has two, very slim, cusped lancets and sexfoil rose window above.
Geometrical east window of 4 lights. Heavily buttressed tower with
octagonal stair turret of 3 stages. Twin-louvred bell openings.
Broached octagonal spire with lucarnes. South porch has chamfered
pointed arch of a single order with inner arch savagely cusped.
Interior: Nave of 3 bays, arcades on octagonal piers. Chancel arch
on corbelled colonettes; stone sedilia and piscinae. Wagon roofs in
nave and chancel. Stained glass east window in north arcade by J
Aldam Heaton, now worn and blurred. Some other early Victorian glass.
(Pevsner and Hubbard).
Listing NGR: SJ9189483584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407610
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
