King’s Stanley is 2 miles south-west of Stroud, on the south side of the Frome valley. The church is on the edge of the built-up area. The church has been successively enlarged (Heighway, 2007; Heighway and Griffin 2014, 2) and was restored, extended, and altered by G. F. Bodley in 1876; The Builder gives a description of the work.

The lower stage of the W tower and the N wall of the nave are relevant to this Corpus. They contain a tower arch, remains of windows, a N doorway and a run of corbels on the N wall only interrupted by Bodley’s vestry.

In 1927 the antiquary, A. C. Fryer, published a description of the font. His description merits quotation in full. 'The church of St George, King's Stanley, possessed originally a large rectangular Norman bowl supported on a circular shaft and four unattached pilasters standing on a rectangular plinth.' Fryer proceeds to note that 'the bowl, the four corner shafts, and the plinth, are lost, and only the central column of the pedestal remains and this has been retooled'. He then states that the font has been 'restored in what is believed to have been the original design'. The present font must thus include the central column of old font's pedestal (Fryer 1927, 133).

A stone building of the Roman period stood just north of and perhaps partly under the church; at the time of DB there was a moated timber hall just W of the church (Heighway and Griffin, 1-4). The earliest reference to the church is found in an entry in the register of Godfrey Giffard, bishop of Worcester, dated 1270 (Willis Bund 1901, i. 41). There was a rectory in the church by 1291 (Astle, Ayscough, and Caley 1802, 240).

Elaboration of the corbel table, here with geometric patterns, is unusual.