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St George's East Parish Church |
| St George in the East was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and consecrated in
1729. The Church was badly damaged by enemy bombing and gutted by fire in 1941. In the 1950s there was much talk about demolishing the, by then, derelict Church as restoration was seen as too expensive. However, thankfully, in the early 1960s a compromise was reached: the shell of the Church was to be retained and a new St Georges in the East be built within its historic walls. This new St Georges in the East Church has a small courtyard from which its interior can be seen through a splendid glass front. The clock face was removed from the tower and living accommodation incorporated into the wings of the Church. The modern, roofless, St Georges in the East, with its 150 foot-high tower, snow-white Portland stone structure, and still with the scars of war, is a fitting and permanent memorial to all the local people who experienced suffering and destruction by enemy action during the Second World War. |
