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in ) | capacity = | parish = Worthing, St George | deanery = ( Rural Deanery of Worthing ) | archdeaconry = Chichester | diocese = (Diocese of Chichester ) | province = Canterbury | vicar = Revd Brian Penfold | website = (www.stgeorgesworthing.org.uk ) }} St George's Church is an Anglican church in the East Worthing area of the Borough of Worthing, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Built in 1867-68 to serve new residential development in the southeast of the town, the Decorated Gothic-style structure was extended later in the 19th century, and expanded its reach further by founding three mission halls elsewhere in Worthing. English Heritage has listed it at Grade C for its architectural and historical importance. ==History== Worthing experienced rapid development in the first quarter of the 19th century, encouraged by royal patronage and the effect of nearby Brighton—one of England's most fashionable and desirable resorts at the time. In the first few decades of the town's existence, however, little building work took place east of the road from Broadwater to the coast: the land was marshy and difficult to develop. The few houses in existence were economically dependent on the 18th-century brickworks and two smock mills in the vicinity, both of which existed by 1831. Gradually, the town expanded to the east, and in the 1860s a church was proposed to serve the area, which had become known as East Worthing.〔 Work started in 1867, when the Bishop of Chichester Ashurst Turner Gilbert laid the foundation stone. The architect George Truefitt was commissioned to design the church. In its original form, it opened on 10 July 1868 after Bishop Gilbert consecrated it.〔 Long-time East Worthing resident Alfred Longley, who wrote several books about the area,〔 recorded the name of the builder as a Mr Longhurst.〔 St George's Church was extended twice in the first 16 years of its existence. As built in 1868, it consisted of a chancel with apsidal end, nave and a small belfry. In 1875, two porches and a vestry were built. Nine years later, the interior was changed by the addition of a transept between the nave and the sanctuary.〔 A tower was planned, but only a stump was ever built. Architectural sketches of the proposed tower showed a tall, spire-topped structure with lancet openings rising at the southwest corner. Architect H. Overnell designed the church hall, which stands to the south, in 1935. A vicarage was established in nearby Selden Road in the early 1900s.〔 The church was always parished: in 1867, a parish was created out of the southeastern part of the area administered by St Mary's Church at Broadwater.〔 The advowson originally lay with the rector of that church, but passed to the National Protestant Church Union in 1903. Its successor, the Church Society Trust, retains it.〔〔 The rector had owned the land originally, and offered it free of charge to allow the church to be built. St George's Church founded a school in the parish in 1874. St George's National School stood on Lyndhurst Road (); its popularity resulted in the brick and flint buildings being enlarged twice by 1897, but in 1940 it was closed and the pupils dispersed to other schools. In 1985, the site was cleared to make way for a supermarket.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St George's Church, Worthing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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