Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812NE ST GEORGE'S STREET
653-1/10/545 (South side)
19/09/72 Church of St George
(Formerly Listed as:
ST GEORGE'S PLACE
Church of St George)

GV II

Church. 1832. By John Hiram Haycock. Ashlar facing over brick
with Welsh slate roofs. In Commissioners' Gothic style. West
tower, single-span roof over nave, short transepts and shallow
chancel.
3-stage tower with doorway and lancet window over, each with
hoodmoulds, clock in second stage, and paired lights to bell
chamber above. Corbel table with gargoyles, embattled parapet
with angle finials. Slight angle buttresses to tower and nave.
4 lancet lights to nave, and triple lancet lights in chancel
east wall.
INTERIOR: largely a single space, with shallow chancel. Oak
panelled reredos and traceried plaster panels over. Hatchment
on chancel north wall. Stained glass in east window by Davide
Evans, depicting figures of saints. Abstract stained glass in
transept windows.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth: 1858-).

Listing NGR: SJ4874713004

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26628621

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)