St George's Church, Southport

St George's Church, Southport
St George's Church, Southport, from the southwest
St George's Church, Southport Location in Merseyside
Coordinates: 53°38′58″N 3°00′08″W / 53.64951°N 3.00226°W / 53.64951; -3.00226
OS grid reference	SD 339 175
Location	Lord Street, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside
Country	England
Denomination	United Reformed Church
Website	St George, Southport
History
Dedication	Saint George
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	15 November 1972
Architect(s)	Thomas Wylie
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1873
Completed	1874
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roof

St George's Church is in Lord Street, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, England, and is an active United Reformed Church. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The church was built in 1873–74 as a Presbyterian Church and was designed by Thomas Wylie. It was altered in 1931 by Irvine and Mosscrip, and later became a United Reformed Church.

St George's is constructed in coursed rock-faced sandstone rubble and has a slate roof. Its architectural style is that of about 1300. The church consists of a five bay nave, and a west steeple consisting of a three-stage tower with a tall broach spire. The tower has angle buttresses, and in its lowest stage is a west doorway with a porch. The porch has a steep gable and is elaborately decorated with colonnettes, crocketed coping, and a finial. In the middle stage is a triple niche with crocketed trefoils, and in the top stage are pairs of two-light louvred bell openings with hood moulds. Above these are an arcaded frieze, a pierced parapet, and corner pinnacles. On the spire are two tiers of lucarnes. At the west end of the nave, flanking the tower, are arched doorways with two-light arched windows above. The bays of the nave are separated by buttresses, and each bay contains a three-light window with plate tracery.