St. George's Church
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St. George's Church

Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England

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    Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London WC1A 2HR England
    Coordinates: 51.51772, -0.12481
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St George's Bloomsbury is one of the twelve new churches designed and paid for under the 1711 Act of Parliament for building Fifty New Churches, and the sixth and final London church designed by the leading architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas Hawksmoor. St George's was consecrated on the 28th January 1730 by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London. The vaults beneath the church were largely unused until 1803, when the Vestry decided to allow bodies to be buried there. This decision was made in an attempt to reduce the number of burials taking place in St George's burial ground (now St George's Gardens, close to Coram Fields), which the Vestry feared would soon be full. By 1844, many coffins deposited in the undercroft were so decayed that they had to be bricked up in a side vault, and after 1856, no further bodies were buried beneath the church. The funeral monuments inside the church all relate to individuals buried in the undercroft. During the restoration of St George's, an initial survey of the undercroft suggested that it contained approximately 300 coffins. In fact, the final total was closer to 900. Each was reverently disinterred and their contents reburied in a marked plot in St Pancras and Islington cemetery. (www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/history.htm)
St George's Bloomsbury is one of the twelve new churches designed and paid for under the 1711 Act of Parliament for building Fifty New Churches, and the sixth and final London church designed by the leading architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas Hawksmoor. St George's was consecrated on the 28th January 1730 by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London. The vaults beneath the church were largely unused until 1803, when the Vestry decided to allow bodies to be buried there. This decision was made in an attempt to reduce the number of burials taking place in St George's burial ground (now St George's Gardens, close to Coram Fields), which the Vestry feared would soon be full. By 1844, many coffins deposited in the undercroft were so decayed that they had to be bricked up in a side vault, and after 1856, no further bodies were buried beneath the church. The funeral monuments inside the church all relate to individuals buried in the undercroft. During the restoration of St George's, an initial survey of the undercroft suggested that it contained approximately 300 coffins. In fact, the final total was closer to 900. Each was reverently disinterred and their contents reburied in a marked plot in St Pancras and Islington cemetery. (www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/history.htm)

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