Church of St George Brockworth, England

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BROCKWORTH COURT ROAD SO 81 NE (west side) 3/44 Church of St George

10.1.55

GV I

Anglican parish church, consecrated 1142, rebuilt C14, altered and restored c1847. Coursed squared and dressed limestone with an ashlar tower. Nave with south porch, south transept and north aisle. Tower at the junction of the nave and chancel. Vestry on the north side of the tower. C20 prefabricated extension to the vestry not of special interest. Projecting gabled porch probably rebuilt C19 with diagonal buttresses and pointed entrance with a double-chamfered pointed-arched head with a moulded hood and head stops. Monument to Elizabeth, wife of Peter Herbert of Hucclecote and other members of that family on the left-hand return of the porch. South transept with a restored pointed 2-light window with a moulded hood and carved head stops to the south facing gable. Three-stage tower with C12 lower stages, upper stage rebuilt C19. External buttressed stair turret with a studded plank door within a flat-chamfered pointed-arched surround. Two-light window to the right of the stair turret with reticulated tracery and moulded hood with carved head stops; buttress with offsets to the right. Upper stage: 2-light belfry windows with hoods with carved head stops and battlemented parapet. The belfry windows are set within rectangular recesses with corbelled decoration at the top. Chancel with diagonal buttresses. Two 2-light pointed windows with hoods with carved head stops flanking a small studded priest's door within a moulded surround between the two windows. Three-light C14 east window with reticulated tracery and a hood with carved head stops. Two-light pointed windows with quatrefoils on the north side. Moulded eaves cornice. Lean-to vestry with plank door at the'east end, within a pointed-arched surround with a hood with head stops, now concealed by a C20 prefabricated extension. Projecting stack flanked by C19 trefoil-headed lancets. North wall. of the north aisle: two 2-light windows with hollow-moulded mullions and surrounds with double cavetto and quirked mouldings and quatrefoils flanking a studded plank north door with fillets within a moulded surround matching that around the windows. Larger 2-light window with a quatrefoil within a deep flat-chamfered surround far left. Stepped coping with roll-cross saddles. Upright cross finial at the east end of the chancel. Plastered interior: 4-bay nave with C19 queen post roof trusses with curved bracing; wagon roof to the north aisle. Probably early C16, flat panelled roof to the south transept with bosses and frieze with vine scroll ornament in the south transept. Flat plank ceiling to crossing. C19 wagon roof to chancel with a casement- moulded wallplate with ballflower ornament. Four-bay C14 nave arcade with octagonal piers and bases on square plinths and moulded capitals with ballflower ornament and double-chamfered pointed arches. Double-chamfered pointed arch to the south transept. C12 round-headed arch of three orders to the crossing with engaged columns with scalloped capitals; chevron decoration to the outer arches, roll-moulded inner arch. Plank door within a roll pointed arch from the north wall of the crossing to the vestry. C12 chancel arch of two orders with chevron and roll mouldings rising from massive circular piers with scalloped capitals with imposts with inset corners. C19 wrought iron screen within the archway. C14 column piscina with a moulded arched head in the south wall of the chancel. Marble facing to the lower half of the walls within the santuary; statues of St. George with a crocketed canopy to the right of the altar, similar statue to the left. Piscina with a flat-chamfered pointed head within the south transept. Flagged floors to the nave and crossing, decorative encaustic tiling to the chancel. C12 tub font inside the south door. C19 organ in the crossing. Two C19 seventeenth century style chairs; C19 Neo- Norman style wooden altar with th