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Students from St George the Martyr C of E Primary School
began their one-week project on-site at St George’s
Bloomsbury. In addition to investigating the history of the site
through a series of guided visits, students used cameras and
sketching pencils to record their own responses to the site;
how did they feel about different locations? What did they
discover that most surprised them? Following their visit to St
George’s, students worked with Trevor Wilson Design to
explore how web-pages are designed and created; "what
makes a successful web page?"

In addition to investigating the history of St George’s Bloomsbury, participating students also explored the history
of the local area through a series of workshops and visits to
other local heritage sites. Students from St George the Martyr
investigated the history of their school (celebrating its
tercentenary in 2009) and its associated church; St George
the Martyr, Queen’s Square. Both St George the Martyr and
St George’s Bloomsbury were affected by the 1711 Act for
Building Fifty New Churches. However, whereas the latter
was built from scratch on the orders of the Act’s
commissioners, St George the Martyr (originally built years
previously as a chapel of ease serving the parish of St
Andrew Holborn) was developed and rebuilt as a parish
church. In this way (both at St George the Martyr and at other
sites), the Commissioners could provide the government with
new parish churches whilst keeping approximately within a
budget already stretched by the large sums of money being
spent on brand new churches such as St George’s
Bloomsbury. Both St George the Martyr and St George’s
Bloomsbury have been dramatically altered since the 1730s,
however, elements of the original buildings exist on both sites.

By the end of their project, the students had all designed two
complete webpages. The first contained their thoughts and
feelings about St George’s Bloomsbury past and present, and
the second comparing both the history and the contemporary
condition of St George’s Bloomsbury with that of St George’s
Queens Square. Students’ designs were then translated by
professional designers into two pages for this website.

Click here to view pages created by students from St George
the Martyr C of E Primary School