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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]
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.
Long Lane originally led from the site of Bermondsey Abbey to the High Street by St George's Church. [5] It was created by the Priory/ Abbey to connect its Bermondsey landholding to that of the southern end of the High Street and to its manor on the western side of Southwark which later became known as St George's Fields sometime from 1104.
Church of St George the Martyr: Borough High Street, Southwark: Gate Pier: 1734–1736: 2 March 1950 ... St Olaf House: London Bridge, Southwark: Sculpture: 1931: 13 ...
St George the Martyr, Holborn: Holborn: George [157] 1703–1706 Parish church 1723 St George, Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury: George [158] 1716–1731 St Pancras New Church: King's Cross: Pancras of Rome [159] 1819–1822 St John, Downshire Hill: Hampstead: John the Evangelist [160] 1823 Only remaining proprietary chapel in the Diocese of London St ...
At the northwest end is the Southwark Bridge Road. At the southeast end is Borough tube station on Borough High Street. Continuing across the street are Long Lane and Great Dover Street. At the northeast corner is the historic St George the Martyr church, where the Charles Dickens character Little Dorrit was married in Dickens' book of the same ...
The vestry of St John Horsleydown proposed naming the boroughs as "Southwark St Saviour's" and "Southwark St Olave's", a suggestion supported by the London County Council. [5] A decision was finally made on 25 January 1900, with the western borough becoming "Southwark" and the eastern borough as Bermondsey .