St Georges Church, Wapping, London, Autumn
by Mackenzie Moulton
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Title
St Georges Church, Wapping, London, Autumn
Artist
Mackenzie Moulton
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
ST GEORGES CHURCH, THE HIGHWAY, WAPPING. I WAS COMMISSIONED BY A FRIEND, JIMMY COTTINGTON TO PAIN THIS CHURCH, AND ENDED UP DOING 2 CANVASES, THIS ONE IN AUTUMN AND ANOTHER WITH A DRAMATIC SKY TO SHOW UP THE WHITE CHURCH
HISTORY
St George-in-the-East is an Anglican Church dedicated to Saint George and one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, England. It was built from 1714 to 1729, with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament. Its name has been used for two forms of parish (areas of land) surrounding, one ecclesiastical which remains and one a Civil counterpart, a third tier of local government. The latter assisted public facilities in the late 19th century but ceded its dwindling purposes to the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney so was abolished in 1927. The church was designated a Grade I listed building in 1950.[2]
In the 1850s, Archibald Campbell Tait, then Bishop of London, appointed a Low Church lecturer, which was contrary to the High Church attitude of the rector and curate. As a protest, there were catcalls and horn blowing, and some male members of the congregation went into the church smoking their pipes, keeping their hats on, and leading barking dogs. Refuse was thrown onto the altar. The church was closed for a while in 1859, and the rector, owing to his poor health, was persuaded by the author Tom Hughes to hand over his duties to a locum.[3]
The church was hit by a bomb during the Second World War Blitz on London's docklands in May 1941. The original interior was destroyed by the fire, but the walls and distinctive "pepper-pot" towers stayed up. In 1964 a modern church interior was constructed inside the existing walls, and a new flat built under each corner tower.
Ian Nairn wrote of it: “A ruin among ruins, in the lost part of Stepney [after the Blitz, and before being blitzed by the Borough Council?] ... The old life has gone ... the new has not yet come ... It makes no difference to Hawksmoor’s bizarre poetry. This is probably the hardest building to describe in London
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