Description

MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE EAST MIDDLETON
NZ 31 SE (East side)

9/56 Church of
20/3/67 St. George

II

Former parish church. Probably C13; chancel largely rebuilt and nave widened
on north c.1822; restored 1888. Coursed rubble patched with brick; some
squared medieval walling on south nave wall; graduated green slate roofs.
Aisleless nave with south porch; 1888 west tower now demolished; chancel
with north vestry.

Mainly late C19 pointed windows with brick heads except where noted otherwise.
All windows have simple wood tracery forming grouped lancets. 2-bay nave.
South side: fragmentary chamfered plinth; replaced door, behind porch on west
bay, has re-set chamfered lintel; square-headed window in east bay has
chamfered reveals, hoodmould and shouldered rear arch; buttress with 2 offsets
at east. North wall of c.1822 has two pointed 3-light windows. Low-pitched
roof with stone-coped gables.

Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel. South side: fragmentary chamfered plinth;
Priest's door with re-set chamfered lintel; 3-light pointed windows in west
bay and at east end; low-pitched roof with coped east gable. Late C19 gabled
porch has round-arched doorway with brick head.

Plastered interior. Narrow C13 pointed red sandstone chancel arch, of one
chamfered order, on mid-wall corbels: male head on north corbel; female head,
with tongue out, on south corbel. Floor slab in chancel to Jane Killinghall
died 1726. Tub-shaped c.1160 sandstone font on possibly C14 stepped, irregular
octagonal base.

C20 brick vestry is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3658411710

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586860

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