Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232286
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232286
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, LONDON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
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.
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