The church was built between 1822 and 1825 to a design byThomas Rickman.[4] A grant of £12,387 (equivalent to £1,280,000 in 2023)[5] was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission.[3] It was originally achapel of ease to the mother church ofSt Laurence, and became a separate parish in 1856. Later three more parishes were created within its boundaries, St Peter, which had earlier been a district within the parish, St James in 1879, and All Saints in the 1950s.[6]
St George's is constructed inashlar stone with aslate roof. Its architectural style isEarly English. The plan consists of anave andchancel in one cell with aclerestory, north and southaisles, and a west tower. The tower is in four stages with anglebuttresses rising to octagonalpinnacles. It has a west doorway under acrocketedgable above which is a talllancet window. In three sides of the third stage are clock faces. In the top stage arearcades of tall lancets, the outer ones being blind. Theparapet isembattled. The nave and aisles are in sevenbays. The bays of the aisles are separated by buttresses rising to pinnacles, and each bay contains a pair of lancet windows. Each bay of the clerestory also contains a pair of lancets. The east window consists of five stepped lancets.[2]
Inside the church the arcades are carried on eight thinpiers. There are galleries on three sides carried oncast iron pillars, their fronts being decorated withtracery. The ceiling is flat, carried on cast iron, decoratedhammerbeams.[4] At the west end of the north aisle is abaptistry containing a whitemarblefont consisting of an angel carrying a scalloped bowl. The octagonal sculptedpulpit was made by Thomas Rawcliffe of Chorley.[2] Theeagle lectern is a memorial to the church's first vicar. The stained glass in the east window is also to the first vicar's memory and is dated 1875. There is a window in the south chancel wall dated 1877, and windows in the north chancel wall dated 1914 and 1920.[7] The glass in the west window is by Stephen Adam, and depicts theResurrection.[4] Thechandeliers were installed in 1977, having previously been inSt Mary's Church, Ulverston. The clock in the tower was installed in 1920.[7] The three-manual organ was made in about 1870 by Kirtland and Jardine, with modifications by E. Walklet in 1934.[8] The bells consist of anEllacombeChime, made by Mears and Stainbank at theWhitechapel Bell Foundry, and installed in 1919.[7]
