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History
Built by Hawksmoor between 1716 and 1731 (and extended in 1781), it was the parish church of a new parish, Bloomsbury
It was one of the twelve ordered by a 1711 Act of Parliament to remedy London’s shortage of parish churches
Its parish covered an area previously part of the parish of St Giles, and focused on the residential developments around the great houses of Southampton, Montagu, and Thanet
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What was reforming about it?
Nothing
Where in Bloomsbury
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Rowland Dobie, The History of the United Parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (1829)
Colin Amery, Kerry Downes, and Gavin Stamp, St George’s Bloomsbury (2008)
Archives
Its archives are in Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, ref. P/GB/; more details are available online via Access to Archives (opens in new window)
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