About St George’s Bloomsbury
- A short history
- Staff at St George’s Bloomsbury
- A tour of St George’s Bloomsbury
   - Interior: alterations to Hawksmoor’s
     original design
   - Nave
   - Galleries and organ
   - East apse and furnishings
   - Undercroft
   - South front and steeple
   - North front
   - Further reading
- Restoration
- Family history research

The site of St George’s Bloomsbury has always been
surrounded by tall buildings on all sides. Hawksmoor took full
advantage of this fact and designed a north front completely
different to the south. This design resembles an Italian palace along the lines of those illustrated in the many books of Italian architecture owned by Wren and subsequently by
Hawksmoor. The use of large keystones is a typical feature of
Hawksmoor’s work and can also be seen, for example, at St
Mary Woolnoth, another of his six 1711 Act churches.

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