DCMS listing details

IoE 205831

Church (Grade I)  TQ3480 22/739 (listed 1950) 

Architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. 1729. White ashlar masonry. Tall western lantern tower approached by steps. Main body of church with round arched windows and apsidal east end. Crypt now cleared and forms large hall. Pepperpot corner turrets. Interior of church was gutted during World War II and a smaller church reconstructed within the outer walls leaving a small courtyard with flats leading from it inside the former west end of the church. The present west end is formed by a glass screen. The lantern tower of St George in the East is a prominent feature in this part of Stepney. The church with its associated rectory, walls, gates, railings and memorials forms a group around St George's Gardens: its former churchyard.

The following items are all Grade II, the listing of all but the last two adding the final two sentences of the church's listing.

IoE 205811

CABLE STEET (South Side) Gate Piers to St George-in-the-East Gardens TQ 3480 22/737 (listed 1972)

Late C18/early C19 brick and stone ornamented gate piers with iron finials. The Dolphin Public House, Nos 192 to 224 (even) and No 230, The Britannia Public House, The Town Hall & Gate Piers form a well defined group on the South Side of Cable Street.

IoE 205832

GATE PIERS TO CHURCH DRIVE AT CHURCH OF ST GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side) TQ 3480 22/740 (listed 1973)

C19. Tall panelled stucco Sate piers with white stone caps. 

IoE 205833

ST GEORGE'S RECTORY, 16 CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side)  TQ 3480 22/741 II GV 2. (listed 1950)

Early C18 - altered. Red brick with partial brick bands and parapet. Roof not visible. 3 storeys and basement. 4 windows with blank projection and 3 windows (some blank) on return. Sashes, recessed with glazing bars and gauged flat arches. Wooden porch. Simple staircase with shaped step ends. Some early and later C19 fireplaces remain. 

IoE 205834

PIER, GATES, RAILED WALL TO NORTH SIDE OF CHURCH OF ST GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side) TQ 3480 22/742 (listed 1973)

C18. Panelled stone pier. Iron gates with overthrow, spear head and poppy seed finials. Railed stone wall, the railings, of similar design to the gates are later replacements. 

IoE 205835

ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, RAINE MEMORIAL, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side) TQ 3480 22/743  (listed 1973)

1725 and later. White stone. Square on stepped plinth and surmounted by a truncated spire. Crested shield with coat of arms on one face and reclining figure with a book in high relief on another. Memorial tablets on other 2 faces. 

IoE 205836

ST GEORGE'S GARDENS WAR MEMORIAL, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side) TQ 3480 22/744 (listed 1973)

War memorial with slender, tapered white stone shaft, bas relief carvings sword and leaves. Stepped plinth. 

IoE 205837

ST GEORGE'S GARDENS GARDEN WALL, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side)  TQ 3480 22/745 (listed 1973)

C18. 8 ft high red brick buttressed wall with white stone coping. North eastern section has a C19 grey marble drinking fountain with bowl and also incorporates a stone plaque giving the pre 1876 course of the wall. Continues into St George in the East's Churchyard and Rectory garden (qv). 

IoE 205838

CHURCHYARD AND RECTORY WALL AT CHURCH OF ST GEORGE IN THE EAST, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 (east side) TQ 3480 22/746 (listed 1973)

C18. 8 ft high red brick buttressed wall with white stone coping. Continues into St George's Gardens (qv). 

IoE 468975

ANONYMOUS SARCOPHAGUS APPROXIMATELY 7 METRES EAST OF ST GEORGE'S RECTORY, CANNON STREET ROAD E1  TQ 3480 788/22/10083 (listed 1997)

Anonymous sarcophagus, c.1740, grey veined marble. Sarcophagus supported at corners on ball and claw feet with acanthus decoration. Coved cover with gadrooning to edge, armorial cartouches to sides and a feathered coronet on the south end. Located opposite the rectory (qv) and possibly in memory of an early rector of the church. A highly unusual design executed in very lavish marble.

IoE 469346

MONUMENT TO A. WYLLIE IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST GEORGES GARDENS, CANNON STREET ROAD E1 TQ 3480  788/22/10082 (listed 1998)

Headstone to Alexander Wyllie, dated 1741. Buff-coloured sandstone. Above the script engraved inscription is a bas relief depicting a skull to the left and crossed bones to the right; above is a ribband inscribed 'memento mori'. It is almost certainly of northern manufacture, brought to London by sea.