Church of St George, King's Stanley

Heritage listing

Details SO 80 SW and KING'S STANLEY ST. GEORGE'S AVENUE SO 8104 (north end) 10/28 Church of St. George 28.6.60 GV I Parish church. C12; C14 alterations, C15 aisle; enlargement of 1823; extensive alterations including chancel of 1876 by George Frederick Bodley. Coursed rubble and ashlar limestone; stone slate roof. Nave with south aisle; west tower, south porch and chancel with south chapel and north vestry with organ loft. C19 restored Perpendicular moulded south doorway with 4-centred arch and C14 ogee-headed niche over with C20 carved St. George. Perpendicular porch, extended at some date, has Tudor arch with hood in parapet-gabled end with diagonal offset buttresses; C19 wagon porch roof. C15 aisle extended to east in 1823 with bays of matching design. Five Perpendicular-traceried windows in wall with variety of buttresses, one to right of porch dated 1607, another at point of extension dated 1823; C19 pointed-arched doorway in east bay with quatrefoil spandrels. Crenellated parapet incorporating small octagonal turret. Perpendicular-traceried windows at each end of aisle, that at east end being C19 with image niche in parapet. North nave wall has C12 corbel table running full length, most corbels being very weathered but some retain face carving. Blocked C12 round-arched north doorway; remaining part of small round-arched nave window. Three main nave windows are narrow C14 with Decorated tracery, 2 being C19 restorations. C19 chancel end wall in mixture of ashlar and coursed rubble has triplet window. Reset corbel table to chancel eaves interrupted on north side by gabled organ loft and vestry; circular stair turret in east angle. Tower of 3 stages is C12 to lower 2 with narrow round-arched window on north and south sides and clasping buttresses. Pointed 2-light Dec

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.