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Latitude: 53.3491 / 53°20'56"N
Longitude: -2.1232 / 2°7'23"W
OS Eastings: 391894
OS Northings: 383584
OS Grid: SJ918835
Mapcode National: GBR FYMQ.45
Mapcode Global: WHBB9.C25V
Plus Code: 9C5V8VXG+JP
Entry Name: Church of St George
Listing Date: 17 November 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232286
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407610
ID on this website: 101232286
Location: St George's Church, Poynton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, SK12
County: Cheshire East
Civil Parish: Poynton-with-Worth
Built-Up Area: Poynton
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Poynton St George
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SJ 98 SW POYNTON-WITH-WORTH C.P. LONDON ROAD (West Side)
3/107 Church of St. George
II
Church, 1858-9 by Crowther, south steeple 1884-5 by Medland and Henry
Taylor. Late C13 style. Coursed rubble, steeply-pitched slate roof.
Nave, two aisles, chancel, porch on south side with steeple in SE
corner. Aisle of 5 bays with simple 2-light cusped windows but
clerestorey of 6 bays with alternative circular and 2-light cusped
windows. Buttresses with offsets and gable crosses. West end of nave
has two, very slim, cusped lancets and sexfoil rose window above.
Geometrical east window of 4 lights. Heavily buttressed tower with
octagonal stair turret of 3 stages. Twin-louvred bell openings.
Broached octagonal spire with lucarnes. South porch has chamfered
pointed arch of a single order with inner arch savagely cusped.
Interior: Nave of 3 bays, arcades on octagonal piers. Chancel arch
on corbelled colonettes; stone sedilia and piscinae. Wagon roofs in
nave and chancel. Stained glass east window in north arcade by J
Aldam Heaton, now worn and blurred. Some other early Victorian glass.
(Pevsner and Hubbard).
Listing NGR: SJ9189483584
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