Architectural Features
C11 nave
clerestorey C13, late C13 chancel including chancel arch and 3 bay south chapel.
Upper stage of tower and angle buttresses C15.
South porch C16.
3 stages with late C15 ashlar angled buttress.
1st stage has C13 arched doorway.
South porch is early C16 moulded stone parapet with sundial, arched doorway with hood moulding and angled buttresses.
South chapel has 3 late C13 pointed arched windows with 2 lancets and circular window above (original unfoiled) with thin shafts with capitals.
Chancel has 2 late C13 Geometrical windows with double lancets and circular window above.
Small round arched Norman window in north wall.
Interior: Nave has C11 west doorway with window above it.
North aisle of c.1200 has round piers and square abaci with chamfered corners.
Early C13 clerestorey of quatrefoiled circles.
Probably C17 nave roof in 7 cants with chamfered beams having lambs tongue stops.
Pulpit is dated 1925 but appears to have reused Jacobean fragments.
SZ5386 : St George, Arreton: pulpit
South aisle roof has C15 ogee-shaped brackets but C19 roof.
East wall has a C13 fragment of a Christ in Majesty in an elongated quatrefoil, possibly from a tympanum.
Royal Arms.
Wall plaque to the Rev. Sir Henry Worsley Esq. by Sir Richard Westmacott, a figure by a tomb flanked by angel and eagle.
Wall monument to Richard Fleming Worsley Holmes Esq. by Sir Richard Westmacott, a relief of a female figure grieving with a wrecked ship on the right and a broken anchor on the left and shells below.
Chancel has C13 chancel arch with ribbed columns the corbel heads C19.
This church is one of 6 island Churches bestowed by William Fitz Osborn on his Norman abbey of Lire, c1150 it was given to Quarr Abbey. (Hampshire and The Isle of Wight: 730 AND 731