Burials at St George's included Mrs Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), an influential female writer of the 'Gothic Novel', the Revd. They were closed for burials in 1854, when London's city churchyards were closed to protect public health. When this filled up a larger burial ground was consecrated at Bayswater in 1765. Its first burial ground was sited beside its workhouse at Mount Street.

St George's was opened in the new residential development of Hanover Square with no attached churchyard. See also: Category:Burials at St George's, Hanover Square The nave has a barrel vault, and the aisles transverse barrel vaults. The interior is divided into nave and aisles by piers, square up to the height of the galleries, then rising to the ceiling in the form of Corinthian columns. There is a tower just behind the portico, rising from the roof above the west end of the nave. Its portico, supported by six Corinthian columns, projects across the pavement. The church was constructed in 1721–1725, funded by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, and designed by John James, who had been one of the two surveyors to the commission since 1716. The land for the church was donated by General Sir William Steuart. The ecclesiastical parish still exists today and forms part of the Deanery of Westminster St Margaret in the Diocese of London.Īrchitecture Interior of St George's Street view of St George's in 1787 The boundaries of the ecclesiastical parish were adjusted in 1830, 18 when other parishes were carved out of it. Because of its location, it has frequently been the venue for society weddings.Ī civil parish of St George Hanover Square and an ecclesiastical parish were created in 1724 from part of the ancient parish of St Martin in the Fields. The building is one small block south of Hanover Square, near Oxford Circus. The church was designed by John James its site was donated by General William Steuart, who laid the first stone in 1721. St George's, Hanover Square, is an Anglican church, the parish church of Mayfair in the City of Westminster, central London, built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London (the Queen Anne Churches).

St George Street, Mayfair, City of Westminster, London

Grosvenor chapel