St George's Church, Millom
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St George's Church, Millom, from the northeast
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 St George's Church, Millom
Location in Cumbria
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| Coordinates: 54°12′32″N 3°16′18″W / 54.2088°N 3.2718°W | |
| OS grid reference | SD 172,800 |
| Location | Millom, Cumbria |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | St George, Millom |
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| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 8 September 1967 |
| Architect(s) | Paley and Austin |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1874 |
| Completed | 1877 |
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| Materials | Sandstone, slate roofs |
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| Parish | Millom |
| Deanery | Furness |
| Archdeaconry | Westmorland and Furness |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
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| Vicar(s) | Revd Malcolm Cowan |
St George's Church is in the town of Millom, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmoreland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Anne, Thwaites, Holy Trinity, Millom, and St Luke, Haverigg. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It is a prominent landmark in the town.
The church was built between 1874 and 1877 to serve the growing town of Millom. It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. The church cost about £12,000 (equivalent to £460,000 in 2015), of which £7,186 was given by the Millom Ironworks. The site for the church was given by the Earl of Lonsdale.
St George's is constructed in red sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. Its plan is "markedly asymmetrical", and consists of a four-bay nave with a north aisle, a central tower with a transept to the north, a south vestry, and a chancel. The nave and the aisle have two-light windows on the sides and three-light windows at the east ends. At the west end, the nave has a five-light window, and the aisle a two-light window. All the windows contain Geometrical-type tracery. The tower has gabled angle buttresses, a stair turret to the northeast, two two-light windows on the south side, pairs of louvred two-light bell openings, and an embattled parapet with pinnacles. It is surmounted by an octagonal spire with lucarnes. The chancel has a five-light east window and three-light windows on each side. It is surmounted by a traceried parapet and has a cross on its gable.
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