Church of St George, Elliott Street, Tyldesley

His Majesty’s commissioners for building national churches have ordered one to be erected at Tyldesley, Lancashire, on an elevated and beautiful spot. The design is by R Smirke Esq, purely Gothic, with a spire 150 feet high. [Manchester Guardian 15 June 1822 page 3]

Church. 1821-4. By Sir Robert Smirke for the Church Commissioners. Chancel extended in 1887. Dressed stone. Nave with clerestory and aisles; west tower, chancel and vestry. Gothick. 7-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth, coped parapet and weathered buttresses which are set diagonally at the corners and have crocketed pinnacles. Each bay has a 2-light aisle window with plain tracery and a clerestory window with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. Porch in westernmost bay. The chancel, which forms a continuation of the nave, has a 2-light window, and a 3-light east window all with Geometrical tracery. 3-stage tower with weathered diagonal buttresses, west door, second stage lancet window, and 3 lancet belfry openings. An octagonal spire is set behind a parapet and crocketed corner pinnacles from which spring flying buttresses. Interior: Double-chamfered nave arcade arches on octagonal columns. Cambered roof structure with timber ceiling. West gallery. Timber fittings include screens, pews, stalls, pulpit etc. James Mort wall memorial, 1855, by Garner of Manchester.

Foundation    23 April 1822 (St George’s Day)
Consecration    19 September 1825 by the Bishop of Chester

Reference    Manchester Guardian 15 June 1822 page 3
Reference    Manchester Guardian 24 September 1825 page 2 – consecration Monday last