He accepted a place on the Court of Common Pleas in 1720, apparently due to an asthmatic complaint, which made his previous office too onerous (his son Arthur was plagued all his life by asthma, and died of it).
Elrington Ball believed that the reason for his failure to achieve promotion was quite simply his lack of legal ability: he was much loved by his friends, but none of them ever praised his judicial qualities.
The interior of the church is dominated by the huge white and grey marble 'Annally Monument', the lengthy Latin inscription on which has been translated as: follows "Sacred to the memory of George Gore and Bridget, his wife.
She was an heiress to Henry Sankey of Tennelick who, having acted with energy on the side of the King when civil war had raged, obtained the lands which you see lying around as the reward of his military valour.
His health being unequal to the discharge of this office, he was advanced to the Court of Common Pleas, and for 25 years performed the part of a most prudent and incorrupt judge, at length having retired A.D. 1745.