St George in the East St George, Middlesex Genealogy

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Parish History
St George in the East, the church of, is situated on the north side of Ratclffie Highway, near the corner of Cannon Street. It is one of the fifty new churches appointed to be erected by act of parliament, in the reign of Queen Anne. It was began [sic] from the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor, in 1715, and finished in 1729. The parish was taken from that of St Dunstan, Stepney (see that church), and was in all respects rendered an independent parish. The architecture is an original and massive style, like all of its eminent architect, and the spire of towe is eminently picturesque.

The church is a rectory, the patronage of which, like that of Stepney, is in the Principals and Scholars of King's Hall and Brazenose College Oxford. It is in the county of Middlesex, in the diocese of London, exempt from archidiaconal visitation... There is a district church now building in the parish, the patronage of which will be in the rector of the parish.

Adapted from: A Topographical Dictionary of London by James Elmes; published 1831.

Here is a complete list of all those district churches and chapelries lying within the boundaries of St George in the East, St George:


 * St George in the East, Christ Church Watney Street- 1841
 * St George in the East St Mary Cabel Street - 1842
 * St John the Evangelist in the East, Grove Street - 1870
 * St Matthew Pell Street (Princes Square) - 1860
 * St Peter Old Gravel Lane, London Docks - 1866 (part from Shadwell)
 * St John the Evangelist in the East - 1870

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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