CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST

CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1357779
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1357779
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34745 80797

Details

4431 CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (East Side) TQ 3480 22/739 CHURCH OF ST GEORGE 29.12.1950 IN THE EAST

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2. 1729. Architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. White ashlar masonry. Tall western lantern tower approached by steps. Main body of church with round arched windows and apsidal east end. Crypt now cleared and forms large hall. Pepperpot corner turrets. Interior of church was gutted during World War II and a smaller church reconstructed within the outer walls leaving a small courtyard with flats leading from it inside the former west end of the church. The present west end is formed by a glass screen.

The lantern tower of St George in the East is a prominent feature in this part of Stepney. The church with its associated rectory, walls, gates, railings and memorials forms a group around St George's Gardens: its former churchyard.

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Listing NGR: TQ3474580797

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.