Building record 1563/15/0 - St George's Church

<1> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 75 (Book). SCH4548.

Congregational Chapel and Anglican Church. Built in 1822-3 for the congregation gathered at Roe Street by Rev. R S McAll. The cost of erection was largely met by sales of shares, the shareholders having the right of ministerial appointment. In 1827 the proprietors declined to support a candidate proposed by the majority of the attenders and proceeded to transfer the Chapel to the Church of England, to which it now belongs; a new independent chapel was built on Roe Street [CSMR 1563/16/0]. The Chapel is brick built with a slate roof. The North front has three bays, with a perdiment pierced by an arch over the center bay, has two round-arched doorways ina n open Doric porch with venetian windows above. The side walls have two tiers of windows in seven bays. A chancel has been added at the South end. The interior has a covered plaster ceiling and a gallery around three sides supported by fluted cast-iron pediments.

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 390998 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Parish church. 1822-23, with later additions. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Classical style, with pedimented liturgical west front, divided by pilasters into 3 bays. Stone portico with plain entablature carried on Tuscan columns. Central paired entrance doors with radial fanlights, separated by a single 16-pane sash window. Central Venetian window in stone architrave above in segmentally-arched recess beneath the gable apex. Round-arched 30-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads in full-height segmentally-arched recesses each side. Return elevations to (liturgical) north and south of 7 bays arcaded by giant pilasters. Round-arched upper windows with radial glazing linked by continuous hoodmoulding, and 30-pane sash windows below. Eastern gable has central segmentally-arched panel with lunettes each side. Chancel with Venetian window a later addition, together with vestries to north and south. The church was built as a speculation and was originally intended as a Congregational Church.

<3> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, p.268 (Book). SCH3078.