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Church of St George

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CURIE listed-building-outline:88089/2010/2/000 no fact link
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts about Prefix
Reference 88089/2010/2/000 Facts about Reference
Name Church of St George Facts about Name
Quality Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source no fact link
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council no fact link
Start date 1980-07-11 Facts about Start date
End date Facts about End date
Entry date 2024-01-23 Facts about Entry date
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.918483 53.704853, -1.918494 53.704848, -1.91851 53.704858, -1.918552 53.704837, -1.918537 53.704827, -1.918711 53.704735, -1.918678 53.704713, -1.918727 53.704686, -1.918668 53.704648, -1.918619 53.704674, -1.918582 53.704649, -1.91836 53.704767, -1.918369 53.704773, -1.918329 53.704795, -1.918433 53.704864, -1.918473 53.704846, -1.918483 53.704853))) Facts about Geometry
Point POINT (-1.91853 53.704755) Facts about Point
Notes Church of St George Facts about Notes
Description Church. 1839-40 by Edward Walsh. Coursed squared stone, ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Norman style. West tower, nave with north vestry, chancel with apse. Tower: 3 stages; pilaster buttresses; door and one window to each stage on each side; parapet. Nave: 5 bays defined by pilaster buttresses; round-arched windows have shafts with cushion capitals and zig-zag ornament to heads; parapet on simple block corbels. Chancel: 1-bay with apse; added aisles with door to north, window to south; east end has 3 stepped round-arched windows with hoodmould over all. Interior: west gallery supported on 2 octagonal columns with Passion scene carved on front (1931). Three round-arched roof trusses to nave on corbelled tie-beams with pendants. Round chancel arch with zig-zag, nail-head and billet decoration and shafts with cushion capitals. Fine carved panelling and seat to sanctuary and carved screen between nave and choir (dated 1931). Font, brought in 1970 from St John the Divine, Thorpe (built in 1880), is octagonal with carved sides and stands on central column with 8 outer marble colonettes. Sowerby St George's, a brief history, pamphlet; Kelly's Directory 1893. Facts about Description
Listed building 1134543 Facts about Listed building

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    }
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