Description

HYDE CHURCH STREET
SJ 99 SW
(south-east side)
Hyde
6/18 Church of
1.10.b5 St. George
G.V. II
Church. 1831-2 by T. and C. Atkinson for the Church
Commissioners. Watershot dressed stone with slate roof. 3-
sided gallery plan with a central west tower. 7-bay aisles
under the same roof as the nave and having a stone plinth,
coped parapet and a tall window with 4-centred arch and
hoodmould. The corners, as well as those of the small
chancel bay have octagonal piers and bold pinnacles. The 5-
light east window has rectilinear tracery. The south aisle
has a wall mounted sundial. Imposing 3-stage tower with 4-
centred arch door, 4-light west window, clock faces,
transomed 2-light belfry window, coped parapet and octagonal
corner columns with pinnacles. Similar doorways flank the
tower on either side giving access to the galleries.

Interior: altered in 1885 when the central pulpit was
removed, a pierced gallery rail and new seats installed and
the organ relocated. At the same time the tall arcade
columns which carry the gallery half way up were remodelled
to be circular rather than octagonal. They have moulded
bases, enriched octagonal capitals and carry 4-centred
arches. Coved plaster ceiling and stained glass. The organ
by S. Renn (1838) is in temporary storage.

Listing NGR: SJ9486394422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St George's Church, Hyde at Wikipedia
• St George's Church, Hyde official website
• Wikidata Q7593139

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)