Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198SE ST GEORGE'S PARADE
895-1/14/310 (East side)
16/07/49 Former Church of St George

II

Former Anglican church, now part of supermarket. 1830. By
James Morgan (a partner of John Nash). Ashlar; slate roof.
Rectangular plan with west steeple. Classical style. Top
frieze and cornice with blocking course, windows have
small-paned glazing. East facade has centre pedimented chancel
projection with flanking single-storey re-entrant blocks. Sill
band, top pediment, breaking pediment to nave. Central
Venetian window with antae and small-paned glazing, louvred
lunette over; nave has blind round-headed windows with
archivolts. Re-entrant blocks have entrances with architraves
and consoled cornices, C20 doors. South facade of 2 storeys
and 7 bays: segmental-headed windows to ground floor and
round-headed windows with archivolts to 1st floor; 1st bay
treated as west facade. North facade retains similar 1st-floor
windows. West facade has centre breaking forward under tower:
ground-floor entablature; end angle pilasters and paired Doric
columns flanking centre. Central round-headed entrance with
imposts, archivolt and console keystone, flanking entrances
have architraves and consoled cornices and windows over;
fielded panels to 1st floor, central window has architrave and
consoled cornice; return has architraved blind windows.
2-stage tower has sill band and angle pilaster strips to 2nd
stage, top cornice and balustraded parapet; roundels to 1st
stage, 2nd stage has architraved windows with cornices, clock
faces above with flanking consoles; balustraded parapet and
needle spire. INTERIOR gutted.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.315).

Listing NGR: SO9177098358

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St George's Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q20128192 Q26502998

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Recommended Books

• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)