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St George the Martyr is a church in the historic Borough district of south London. It lies within the modern-day London Borough of Southwark, on Borough High Street at the junction with Long Lane, Marshalsea Road, and Tabard Street. St George the Martyr is named after Saint George. The church is a Grade II* listed building. [2]
There are various churches dedicated to Saint George the Martyr. St. George Coptic Orthodox Church (Philadelphia) St George the Martyr Holborn; St George the Martyr Southwark; St. George Melkite Catholic Church; St. George Church; St. George the Great Martyr Orthodox Church, Alaska
Southwark St George the Martyr was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England and part of the ancient Borough of Southwark. In 1855 the parish vestry became a local authority within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works .
At the northwest end is the Southwark Bridge Road and at the southeast end is Borough High Street.Close by, just to the north in Borough High Street, is the historic St George the Martyr church, where the Charles Dickens character Little Dorrit was married in Dickens' book of the same name.
Church of St George the Martyr: Borough High Street, Southwark: Gate Pier: 1734–1736: 2 March 1950 ... St Mary's Road, Peckham, Southwark: Further Education College ...
The parish of St Margaret was located in the Brixton Hundred of Surrey.It included the Liberty of the Clink and the Liberty of Paris Garden.. In 1295 the ancient borough of Southwark was enfranchised and initially consisted of the parish of St Margaret and the parishes of St George the Martyr, St Olave and St Mary.
In 1900 a replica of the obelisk was placed in Brookwood Cemetery to mark where human remains from the crypt of St George the Martyr Southwark were reburied in 1899. Located on St. George the Martyr Avenue in plot 81 in the South side of the cemetery, this replica has subsequently toppled due to the subsidence of the remains beneath it.
The borough was formed from four civil parishes: St Mary Newington, Southwark Christchurch, Southwark St George the Martyr and Southwark St Saviour. In 1930 these four were combined into a single civil parish called Southwark, which was conterminous with the metropolitan borough. [2]