Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BAMFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279573
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BAMFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279573
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BAMFORD STREET
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, BAMFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 21956 03203
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20SW BAMFORD STREET, Glascote
670-1/4/29 (East side)
Church of St. George
II
Church. 1880, porch 1918. By Basil Champneys. Brick with
ashlar dressings; tile roofs. Free Gothic style. Chancel with
north vestry and south organ loft; saddleback crossing tower;
3-bay nave with north porch and south aisle. Chancel has
moulded plinth, parapets and coped gable; high 3-light east
window with reticulated tracery, hood mould with fleuron and
flanking brattished pinnacles rising above coping; gabled
vestry has end niche and square-headed east window of 3
pointed lights; organ loft has east entrance with
hollow-chamfered jambs and shaped lintel, square-headed south
window of 3 pointed lights. Tower has offset buttresses and
north-west round stair turret, entrance with shouldered lintel
and curved plank door; coped gables to west and east have
3-light louvred bell openings with intersecting tracery; hood
moulds with fleurons and flanking brattished pinnacles,
square-headed 2-light north and south windows. South aisle
under catslide roof continuous with that to organ loft has
square-headed windows of 3 pointed lights. Nave has 3 north
windows of 3 lights with reticulated tracery under continuous
hood, coped gable, 4-light west window with intersecting
tracery, pinnacles and fleuron to hood. Gabled porch has
pointed arch with continuous moulding; niche above has statue
of St George with dragon to plinth and flanking pinnacles;
3-light side windows.
INTERIOR: chancel has chamfered rib vault with boss, sedilium
and piscina under ogee arches, crockets and fleurons;
entrances with hollow-chamfered mouldings; similar vault to
crossing, which has arches to east and west with continuous
keeled roll moulding between 2 orders, arch to organ loft of
one order; nave arcade of hollow-moulded arches on octagonal
piers, sill courses. Fittings: chancel has reredos with
foliate panels, simple wrought iron railings, plain stalls
with open fronts; crossing has rails on bracketed timber
posts; nave has timber pulpit with Tudor flower to cornice and
small octagonal font with splayed base. Memorials: alabaster
wall war memorial to nave; stained glass by Morris and Co: of
1903 to east window, depicting the four evangelists; of 1905
to nave north-east window. An early example of the free use of
the Gothic style.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.135).
Listing NGR: SK2195603203
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 135
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13716
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13717
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/126274
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/126271
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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