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St George

St George

Dorchester

Dorset

738/7/116 FORDINGTON HIGH STREET (Northeast side) CHURCH OF ST GEORGE 08-MAY-50 I South door late C11, South aisle

Architectural Features

north part of porch C12.

South transept C14.

Tower, south part of porch, west wall of south aisle, arches to nave and south aisle of south transept late C15.

South doorway has a carved tympanum of Caen stone in a very realistic style (c.f. Bayeux Tapestry of late C11), representing St George, mounted, with praying soldiers on the left and dead or dying soldiers on the right.

Set back buttresses, with gargoyles at eaves cornice, and diagonally-placed pinnacles with crocketed tops.

Stained glass in west and south transept windows by Morris and Co , Communion rail of circa 1700 from Milton Abbey.

Altar: circa 1390, ashlar, brought from Salisbury Cathedral in 1958

Pulpit dated 1592, ashlar

panelled, carved initials (possibly the oldest post-Reformation stone pulpit).

Font C15, ashlar, octagonal, panelled sides.

Chancel stalls C17.

Roman tomb-stone in nave.