Saint George's Church
The spacious church, with its impressive sanctuary by G F Bodley, provides a dignified and dramatic setting for traditional anglo-catholic worship. The brick nave, designed by a local architect, was built in 1888 and Bodley’s chancel was added in 1897. The Lady Chapel, built in the same Gothic Revival style, dates from around 1911: an area of wooden cladding on its exterior suggests that there were once plans for further expansion. On the opposite side of the chancel is the screened Resurrection Chapel together with the Walker organ, which was installed high up over the chapel ceiling. The organ case is thought to be Bodley’s work. Doors on either side of the sanctuary give access on one side to a small chapel, where the reserved Sacrament is kept in an aumbry, and on the other side to a well-fitted sacristy and vestry. The pews provide seating for around 400 worshippers and there are occasionally services which call for a capacity of that order: regular congregations, though smaller, still seem to use the whole space. A new heating system, installed in 1995, has put paid to the church’s former reputation as “cold in winter”. Henry Thorold in his guide to Nottinghamshire commends the church as “a building with a powerful religious atmosphere”. It is listed as Grade II*.
St George’s is a prayerful place where many people – archbishops, bishops, priests and lay people – give witness that they have been brought closer to Christ and helped on their spiritual journey through the sacraments and worship of the church.