St George the Martyr Holborn
| St George the Martyr Holborn | |
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Middlesex | |
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| Status: | Parish church |
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| Church of England | |
| Diocese of London | |
| Parish: | TQ30368190 |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ30368190 |
| Location: | 51°31’16"N, 0°7’21"W |
| Address: | 44 Queen Square |
| History | |
| Built 1703 | |
| Information | |
| Website: | St George the Martyr |
St George the Martyr Holborn is a Church of England parish church standing at the south end of Queen Square in Holborn, in Middlesex. The church was originally designated with the suffix 'the Martyr' in order to distinguish it from the later nearby church of St George's Bloomsbury, with which it shared a burial ground (now St George's Gardens).[1] While the historical name remains its formal designation, it is today known simply as St George's Holborn.[2]
The church is a Grade II* listed building.[3]
History
The church was built in 1703–06 by Arthur Tooley, as a chapel of ease to St Andrew's, 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 Samuel Sanders 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 13 March 1953.[7]
It was at this church that Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath married, on Bloomsday in 1956.[8]
Outside links
References
- ↑ "History". Friends of St George's Gardens. http://www.friendsofstgeorgesgardens.org.uk/history.htm.
- ↑ "St George's Holborn". http://www.sgtm.org/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 {NHLE|1245485|Church of St George The Martyr|grade=II*}}
- ↑ Hughson, David (1807). London:Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood. 4. London. p. 396. https://books.google.com/books?id=_xAwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA396&dq.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Elmes, James (1831). A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot. p. 205. https://archive.org/details/atopographicald00elmegoog.
- ↑ Timbs, John (1867). Curiosities of London (New ed.). London: J.S. Virtue. p. 163.
- ↑ "An Address Given by the Rev. Stanley Evans, M.A., at a Memorial Service for Joseph Stalin at the Church of St. George, Queen Square, London, on March 13th, 1953.". http://anglicanhistory.org/england/sgevans/stalin1953.html.
- ↑ Walking Literary London, Roger Tagholm, New Holland Publishers, 2001.