ST. GEORGES, HANOVER SQUARE
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
LONDON ENGLAND
"St George's, Hanover Square, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, central London, built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London (the Queen Anne Churches). The church was designed by John James; its site was donated by General William Steuart, who laid the first stone in 1721. The building is one small block south of Hanover Square, near Oxford Circus. Because of its location, it has frequently been the venue for society weddings.
"A civil parish of St George Hanover Square and an ecclesiastical parish were created in 1724 from part of the ancient parish of St Martin in the Fields
"The land for the church was donated by General Sir William Steuart.[2] The church was constructed in 1721–25, funded by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, and designed by John James,[3] who had been one of the two surveyors to the commission since 1716.[4] Its portico, supported by six Corinthian columns, projects across the pavement. There is a tower just behind the portico, rising from the roof above the west end of the nave.[3]
The interior is divided into nave and aisles by piers, square up to the height of the galleries, then rising to the ceiling in the form of Corinthian columns. The nave has a barrel vault, and the aisles transverse barrel vaults.
" From its early days, the church was a fashionable place for wedding." (Link)
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Photos: Taken in November 2020 by Richard Wilson while living and working in London, England.
Link-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square,
God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)
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