Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NE ST GEORGE'S DRIVE
646-1/7/570 (East side)
Church of St George and attached
boundary wall
GV II
Parish church. 1887-91. By RC Sutton of Nottingham. Chancel
1897, by GF Bodley. South chapel c1911, probably to Bodley's
design. Rockfaced stone, with ashlar dressings and plain tile
roofs with coped gables. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, side chapels, vestry, nave with aisles, north
and south porches.
EXTERIOR: plinth and sill band. Mainly pointed arched windows
with simple tracery. Chancel has to east an altar recess with
clasping buttresses and a 3-light window set high. To south,
an elliptical arched 2-light window. To north and south, a
flat roofed chapel and vestry, 1897, each with parapet and 2
flat-headed windows. To north, a larger flat roofed vestry and
lean-to organ chamber,
2:1 bays, has a blank east end with clasping buttresses and a
traceried niche. East bay, defined by a buttress, has a
2-light window and a gabled bell turret. Western bays have 2
similar windows. Coped west gable, part of a planned south
aisle, is wider and has a boarded opening.
Nave, 4 bays, has 8 clerestory windows on each side. West end
has two 2-light windows, and above, a traceried round window.
Coped gable topped with a tall, gabled double bell turret.
Aisles have buttresses and 6 windows, with 2 similar windows
at the west ends. Gabled south porch has a moulded pointed
arched doorway with double doors, and a round window in each
side. North porch modified by attached corridor to church
hall, mid C20.
Outside, attached low boundary wall, Bulwell stone with
chamfered ashlar coping, along the south and west sides of the
church. At the south-west corner, a pair of square gate piers
with chamfered ashlar caps and wrought-iron double gates.
INTERIOR: nave and aisles brick with ashlar piers and
dressings, chancel and chapels rendered.
Chancel has moulded brick arch with paired shaft responds, and
pointed arched wooden barrel vault. North side has an organ
case by Bodley. East end has a pointed arch with shafts to the
altar recess, flanked by pointed arched doors. Stained glass
east window. South side has a double arcade, 2 bays, with
pointed arches and octagonal columns, flanking a corridor. At
the east end, a shouldered opening to the east chapel. East
chapel has 2 stained glass windows and panelled wooden
ceiling.
South chapel has pointed barrel vault. East end has a pointed
arched altar recess with C14 style triple niche and spire
containing 3 figures. South side has traceried piscina and 3
stained glass windows, 1949, by Whitefriars.
Nave has 4-bay arcades with moulded brick arches and hood
moulds, and round ashlar piers. Paired clerestory windows on
sill band. Arch braced roof with traceried gables and wall
shafts. West end has stained glass, 1926.
Aisles have lean-to roofs with wooden wall shafts. North aisle
has stained glass windows c1934 and mid C20. To north, 2 doors
and to east, a pointed arch to a small side chapel. South
aisle has plain windows and south door. East end has a
shouldered opening and an arched opening to the chapel.
Fittings include wooden pulpit, screen and stalls, 1938, and
C19 benches. C19 table font with granite shafts and C20 wooden
cover.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 247; ).
Listing NGR: SK5700338752
