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St George's Bloomsbury

Hawksmoor's church with a stepped pyramid for a steeple and George I standing on the top of it.

ChurchesHawksmoor

Photo by Mark Longair from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Finished in 1730, the last and strangest of Hawksmoor's London churches: a Corinthian portico facing one way, an altar facing another, and a tower modelled on the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, stepped like a pyramid and crowned with a statue of George I in a Roman toga. Lions and unicorns fight around its base. Hogarth put the steeple in the background of Gin Lane.

Where
Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SA
Nearest station
Holborn · 4 min walk

Kept open by volunteers, so the church asks visitors to check before making a special journey.

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