History
The church was built in 1703–06 by Arthur Tooley, as a chapel of ease to St Andrew, Holborn. [3] Tooley was paid £3,500 to build the chapel and two houses by a group of fifteen trustees including Sir Streynsham Master. [4] It was later bought by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches and became a parish church in 1723, receiving the dedication to St George, in honour of Streynsham Master's governorship of Fort St George in India. [5]
The antiquary William Stukeley was the rector from 1747 to his death there in 1765. [6]
The church was remodelled in the early nineteenth century by J.B. Papworth, who added a bell-tower and two frontages to what had previously been a plain brick building, [5] and once again in 1867–69 by S. S.Teulon, who almost entirely changed the exterior, removed the galleries and added the present columns and roof. [3]
After the death of Joseph Stalin the Rev. Stanley Evans, M.A. gave a memorial service in his honour on March 13, 1953. [7]
It was at this church that Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath married on Bloomsday in 1956. [8]
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